When was hotel sorrento set

In contrast, Kevin Harrington as Dick, the outspoken journalist, is often hard to hear and appears more ineffectual than his role demands.

In his arguments with the women he appears shrill rather than overbearing — making it easier for Meg and Marge to make their points count. Her relationship with her English husband Edwin is warm and believable, and she is helped in this by a lovely performance from Roger Oakley. Marcella Russo is less successful as Pippa, never convincing us that she is a bright, New York-dwelling career woman who has come home for a flying visit.

Caroline Goodall in Hotel Sorrento, as expat author Meg. Topics Australian film Rewatching classic Australian films blogposts. When his brother-in-law, Drama professor Peter Fitzpatrick, author of "After The Doll," a book about Australian theatre, steered him in the direction of Hannie Rayson's play Richard was immediately drawn to the low-key, unmelodramatic t one of the writing and the expatriate theme.

For the only time in my career we were all genuinely reluctant to leave our location. Even though the weather can be unpredictable we were very fortunate and finished ahead of schedule. The lunch scene, an interior to be shot in the studio with most of the principals, was originally slated to be filmed much later in the production. Veteran English actress Joan Plowright joined the Australian cast to play the part of a retired teacher residing in the town.

After several years of working on major studio assignments in Hollywood he decided to return to Australia for personal and professional reasons. Richard collaborated with Peter Fitzpatrick on the screenplay but avoided making major changes to Hannie Rayson's play. At the age of 12 when Richard first saw Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and later as a student at the University of Southern California's film school he met the director on the set of one of his later films, Topaz. Franklin's first major success was Patrick , the suspense thriller about a catatonic with telekenetic powers, aimed at the international market.

In he made his last Australian-based production Road Games , in which truck driver Stacy Keach and a woman hitch-hiker Jamie Lee Curtis stalk a psycho killer. In he filmed Link in the UK, telling the story of an anthropologist Terence Stamp who is studying the missing link between man and the apes and his last Hollywood outing was another sequel, FX 2.

Grand Prix-Avoriaz, France. Best Director- Sitges, Spain. Helen's association with director Richard Franklin dates back to The Blue Lagoon , which Richard co produced, on which she worked as production co-ordinator and continued with the thriller Roadgames She entered the industry in the early Seventies as a production manager and co-ordinator for Bilcock and Copping, working on commercials and documentaries. George Miller. Production Manager. Ken Cameron. Tim Burstall.

Fortress d. Arch Nicholson. The Fringe Dwellers d. Bruce Beresford. Michael Pattinson. Ken Annakin. Unit Location Manager. Production Co-Ordinator.

John Lamond. Roadgames d. Richard Franklin. Marcus Cole, Colin Budds Miniseries. Stephen Wallace. Production Supervisor. John Power. Pino Amenta. The co-founder of Melbourne-based Theatreworks wrote the award-winning play while living in London. Hotel Sorrento was originally commissioned by the Playbox in and toured around Australia with various companies. Before becoming a dramatist Hannie studied acting at the Victorian College of the Arts.

After deciding to write full time she was involved with community and school theatre. Hannie is now acclaimed the "successor to David Williamson as our major playwright. Veteran Australian actor Ray Barrett invests the character of Wal with a likeable knockabout charm. He's got his mates, he goes fishing and every day he goes down to the pub. Like many of his generation he took his wife for granted but there was certainly no conscious attempt at maltreating her.

In his own secret way he adored her but was unaware he was doing anything to hurt his wife or children. Since his first role in a radio play at the age of 12 Ray has worked steadily, beginning his adult working life at 16 as a radio announcer on 4BH in Brisbane before moving into radio plays and then to the theatre, London and success in television and film.

He returned to Australia in the mid-Seventies after an year stint in Britain. David Elfick. Barry Peak. Ron Way. Chris Thomson. Where The Green Ants Dream d. Werner Herzog. Henri Safran. Carl Schultz. Quentin Masters. Peter Collinson. Fred Schepisi. Let The Balloon Go d.

Oliver Howes. Fred Zinnemann. Nicholas, primarily a stage actor, felt enthusiastic at the opportunity to work in an ensemble piece about "real people and real life. It is also so mature and well thought out in its arguments and themes. The character of Edwin, Meg's publisher husband, presented a unique acting challenge. From to Nicholas trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, subsequently amassing an impressive list of credits on the English repertory circuit and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Upon reading the screenplay for the film version Caroline Gillmer, the only cast member to have appeared in the original stage production, assumed that she would repeat her stage role as Meg.

But upon being cast as Hilary, described as "ordinary and sensible," the eldest sister who stayed behind, she felt that she had the opportunity to "reassess the family though another sister's eyes. Caroline originally trained at the Ensemble Theatre under the direction of Hayes Gordon and although best known as a dramatic actress she began as a singer and by the age of 25 was a leading lady in musicals, co-starring with John O'May and John Diedrich in Gershwin and The Twenties And All That Jazz.

The trio performed with much success around Australia in the latter production, made a television special based on the show and a hit album.

She played a prostitute with a heart of gold in the hit television serial, Prisoner, a welfare worker in the feature, Fighting Back and is currently a regular on Neighbours.

Fred Schepsi. Tom Jeffrey. Lex Marinos. Bill Hughes. Working on location enhances the play's undercurrent relating to notions of 'home' and the roots of belonging, the theme of cultural identity, how you define Australianness. Caroline was grateful for the opportunity to spend a week in rehearsal prior to the commencement of shooting where the cast were able to establish a rapport with each other. The London-born actress spent much of her childhood living in Sydney with her Australian mother.

She began performing at an early age, was involved with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and then graduated from Bristol University, where she studied English Literature and Drama.

After serving an apprenticeship in British regional theatre, she appeared on various West End stages. For her role in Cassidy as Charlie, the modern woman who makes no compromises, she received a Best Actress nomination from the Australian Film Institute. In Cliffhanger she plays a villainous pilot and explosives expert.

In Goodall, who considers herself 'half-Australian' Her journalist mother was a Sydney-sider , spent much of her childhood commuting between Australia and Britain. The Silver Brumby d. John Tatoulis. Possessed of an extraordinary vulnerability Hargreaves is the quintessential risk taker who has never allowed himself to be straitjacketed by casting directors.

John appreciated the "easy, hassle-free and relaxed atmosphere" that director Richard Franklin created during the shoot and he also was fulsome in his praise of Joan Plowright, who plays his longtime friend, Marge Morrissey in the film.

It was a stimulating and rewarding experience," he says. As for his own character, John sees Dick, who edits a paper called the Australian Voice, as "an old-fashioned left-wing Australian. Hargreaves began his career at the New Theatre in Sydney when he was cast in the controversial play, America Hurrah under the direction of John Tasker.

He later studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduating in along with the likes of Pamela Stephenson, and Wendy Hughes, and he rapidly became one of Australia's leading actors. He made an immediate impact in his first screen role as the young policeman brutalised by older copper Peter Cummins in the film version of David Williamson's play, The Removalists.

He played another definitive Aussie male in an even more memorable Williamson screen adaptation, Don's Party in the title role as the amiable host who gradually disintegrates over the course of election night.

A slump in the local industry forced Hargreaves to spend the mid-Eighties living in France. During this period he appeared in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom. Recently he played an alcoholic ex-journalist in the miniseries set in the Fifties, The Leaving Of Liverpool, which told the story of Britain's child migrants, shipped across the world and frequently abused. Michael Blakemore. James Ricketson. Michael Jenkins.

George Ogilvie. Gil Brealey. The Killing Of Angel Street d. Donald Crombie. Little Boy Lost d. Terry Bourke. Colin Eggleston. Philippe Mora. Deathcheaters d. Brian Trenchard-Smith. Tara was excited at the prospect of playing the sophisticated Pippa, the "heartbreaker" of the family. She felt the need to break away from the home partly because her family sees her as a particular kind of person.

She desperately needs to live somewhere else to change and become a different kind of person. As with her fellow cast members she feels strongly that Richard Franklin trusted the actors and allowed them the necessary latitude to develop their characters.

It's quite a rare opportunity for a female actor working in Australia to have the chance to work in a largely female ensemble piece focussing on strong and complex individuals who just happen to be women. For the film version of Rayson's play the role of Pippa has been slightly enlarged and her character is an advocate of a fast food franchise in the pretty seaside town.

Tara gained international recognition for her lead role as the struggling ballroom dancer opposite Paul Mercurio in Baz Luhrmann's international hit, Strictly Ballroom. She also danced and sang in the original stage production of Strictly Ballroom, directed by Baz Luhrmann in for the Six-Year-Old Theatre Company, an offshoot of the Sydney Theatre Company created to promote young actors.

She then continued with her academic studies at the Australian National University where she studied Australian History. After performing in plays at university and receiving her arts degree she was accepted into NIDA at the age of She has also appeared with the group, the Madrigirls and toured with Pardon me Boys, a forties-style dance band. Her television work includes a guest role in a Julian Clary television special, Play School and Rescue. Baz Luhrmann. Marge, a teacher, divorcee and mother maintains a holiday house in Sorrento and is a good friend to Dick, a journalist.

A dispassionate observer and confidante, Joan feels that Marge functions "almost like a Greek chorus. Joan Plowright sees Marge as a woman who has made mistakes in the past and "hasn't taken advantage of her true abilities because there were children to bring up.

Film allows you the possibility of just being a character without projecting to the back stalls as on stage. When Olivier established the National Theatre of Great Britain Plowright volunteered her talent and energy and during her decade long involvement, she appeared in many classic productions. In Joan commissioned plays from four women writers, including Maureen Duffy and Margaret Drabble which she directed at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre prior to a limited run at the Old Vic.

After appearing in several films since the death of husband Sir Laurence Olivier in , she was nominated for a Best Supporting Oscar for her role in Enchanted April. Lord and Lady Olivier had three children: Richard, the eldest, is now a director, and daughters, Tamsin and Julie, are both actresses. Eighteen-year-old Ben plays Hilary's son, a good-natured kid who shares the family home with his mother and grandfather, Wal.

As a relative newcomer thrown into an ensemble of experienced adult actors he concedes that he was initially intimidated by the task that lay ahead and that when he auditioned for the film he had never heard of the play. Although slightly nervous once he arrived on set he was able to absorb the ambience created by the locations and felt at ease, "Everything starts fitting together and you start to feel more like the character you're playing.

Every time we do a shot he said, 'Great! The equal of any of our "exports," cinematographer Geoff Burton has chosen to work in the Australian landscape in a 20 year career including Sunday Too Far Away and several other landmarks in the revival of contemporary Australian film making, and was specifically attracted by the opportunity to capture the unique qualities of Sorrento on film.

Although Geoff and Richard have known each other for years they had not previously worked together. The Sum Of Us also co-dir. Tracey Moffatt. Frauds d. Stephan Elliott. Today, however, the atmosphere is anything but friendly. Long a London resident, Meg Caroline Goodall and her English publisher-husband Nicholas Bell have arrived for a visit in the wake of her well-received novel, which she regards as purely fictional but which her sisters believe is so autobiographical that she has merely changed the names.

Meanwhile, Hillary Caroline Gillmer , a widower with a year-old son Ben Thomas , has stayed at home, looking after her widowed father Ray Barrett and running a coffee shop. Nearby is a divorcee Joan Plowright , who has a weekend place in Sorrento and has a frequent guest John Hargreaves , who is editor of a bimonthly paper concerned with Australian cultural issues.

Wisely, they have opened it up only when it seems natural to have done so. On one level, then, the sisters thrash out their feelings for each other while trying to sidestep an old secret that links them painfully.