Cruel sisters. Kind heroine. Bell-bottoms.
You know the story. Stepsisters, a missing shoe, a happy ending. Rossini wrote the whole thing — music, orchestration, the lot — in three weeks in 1817, when he was twenty-five years old. But Rossini’s Cinderella is its own creature: no fairy godmother, no pumpkin. The magic is the heroine’s stubborn belief that kindness costs nothing and changes everything.
Stuart Maunder sets it in 1970s Adelaide. Wallpaper. Polyester. A kitchen radio. The shoe stays. And at the end, when she could leave her stepfather and stepsisters with nothing, she forgives them instead.
Creatives
Cast
Chorus
- Annabel Spiteri
- Belinda Dyer
- Catherine Campbell
- Christie Anderson
- Cleo Lee-McGowan
- Cosima Walsh
- Deborah Caddy
- Elizabeth Lewis
- Genevieve Dickson
- Hannah Hawthorne
- Joanna Drimatis
- Karina McKenzie
- Norbert Hohl
- Andrew Turner
- Brett Heaysman
- Daniel Goodburn
- James Penn
- Joshua Rowe
- Mark Oates
- Pascal Herington
- Robert Macfarlane
- Stephen Bennett
- Stephen Marsh
- Tom Patrick
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