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Max Cullen performs Faces in the Street

Lawson (circa 1902) is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period.
Lawson (circa 1902) is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period.

posted Thursday, 25 Mar

The Street Theatre presents Max Cullen’s Faces in the Street: A Salute to Henry Lawson, a performance portrait of the Australian writer who helped to forge, for non-Indigenous Australians, a cultural identity separate to that of Britain.

Faces in the Street not only celebrates Lawson’s ballads and prose. The performance will also enable audience members to witness a construction of his public persona.

Max Cullen’s notable acting career is evident in his numerous awards including a Logie Award for Best Supporting Actor in The Last Bastion (1984), a 1990 Sydney Theatre Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor in The Tempest, a 1994 Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor in Spider and Rose and the 1994 AFI Award for the same, a 1999 Green Room Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in Company B’s production of Cloudstreet and 2005 AFI nomination for best supporting actor in Love My Way.


Faces in the Street: A Salute to Henry Lawson will be performed at The Street Theatre April 10 -24 at 8.00 pm. Tickets - $29/ $25/ $19.

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