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October 26, 2025

Theatre : American Song

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In Flying Penguin Productions terrific new work, a monologue written by Joanna Murray-Smith and featuring Renato Musolino, a father finds himself in a relentless, but seemingly invisible, chain of events leading to an American tragedy.

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What is it that makes us who we are ? After Freud and the decoding of DNA, after Rousseau and Charles Darwin, we strongly suspect it’s that pesky combination, that cosmic arm wrestle between nature and nurture. What causes things to turn out …

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October 08, 2025

Interview – David Mealor and Flying Penguin Productions

His newest production for the State Theatre Company, American Song marks 20 years of David Mealor’s Flying Penguin Productions. He looks back on his beginnings as a director, his collaborators, theatrical accomplishments, and might-have-beens.

David Mealor remembers a conversation, with an actor friend in Sydney, way back at the beginning of the century. It was when he first said out loud to someone that he would like to take up directing.

“It was because I would see myself as an …

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