Melanie Tait
Writer at Freelance
Playwright | Screenwriter THE QUEEN'S NANNY September 2024 @ensemblesyd Agent: Lisa dot Fagan at lmcm dot com dot au
Articles
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Jan 10, 2025 |
stagewhispers.com.au | Melanie Tait
In 1954, glamour model Shirley Beiger stood trial for the murder of her two-timing boyfriend outside Sydney’s iconic Chequers nightclub. Melanie Tait and Sheridan Harbridge have shaped those events, and indeed some of the actual courtroom dialogue, into a highlight of this year’s Sydney Festival.
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Sep 18, 2024 |
absolutetheatre.com.au | Paul Kiely |Melanie Tait
Sydney review- The Queens Nanny: comedic, dramatic and tragic elementsBy Paul KielyThe Queens NannyBy Melanie TaitDirected by Priscilla JackmanAn Ensemble Theatre ProductionEnsemble TheatreMcDougall Street, KirribilliSeason: 6 September – 12 October 2024 Duration: 90 minutes approx (No interval)There has been many a prairie oyster consumed at Buckingham Palace over the years. Perhaps done none better than by the popular matriarch of the Windsor’s, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
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Aug 26, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Melanie Tait
Sydney public transport has long been mostly punishing. It’s a hard city to live in without a car if you have to venture anywhere beyond the CBD, from anywhere beyond the CBD. Living on the Bankstown train line means getting used to seeing the three worst words in the English language: “Train Replacement Service”. I don’t enjoy driving.
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Aug 19, 2024 |
ensemble.com.au | Melanie Tait
A Country Practice addict and self-professed fanatic Melanie Tait, imagines what it was like for the writers to pen the episode that became a defining cultural moment in Australia’s TV history — when Molly Jones takes her final breath. 2025 Subscriptions on sale Tue 20 Aug at 10am. Overview WORLD PREMIERE It’s 1985. TV prime time. Across Australia, millions of tear-stricken eyes are glued to their television sets in disbelief. A Country Practice’s beloved Molly Jones takes her final breath.
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Jul 14, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Melanie Tait
When you’ve been a single woman who mostly dates men for any significant amount of time, the people who love you are going to have multiple theories as to why you’re still residing on that imaginary shelf, waiting to be picked.
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You can now buy tickies to my new play - HOW TO PLOT A HIT IN TWO DAYS - starring the extraordinary Georgie Parker and directed by theatrical rock star Lee Lewis. So excited for this one! https://t.co/za8hyAmiqK
Hey friends - our beautiful play heads to Wollongong this week! If you live there, please go see it! If you have any pals there, please recommend it? https://t.co/dwY5kPNLf3
The more things change, the more they (kinda) stay the same. Our show is about the first Scottish staff member to 'dish the dirt'*. *write a very sweet memoir of the Queen's childhood that had her banished from court until thirty years after her death. https://t.co/8VVsIOurcT
