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ROVERS WEB SERIES
Roving women are back to take over the internet!
CREATED By Katherine Lyall-Watson & Caroline Dunphy
STARRING roxanne mcdonald & barbara lowing
SYNOPSIS
“If I have to pivot any faster I’m going to displace my hip” Barbara Lowing
Roving women are back to take over the internet! Rovers Web Series captures the same spirit, truth, and hilarity as the original stage production, with ‘Aunty Rox and Barb’ unleashed to riff on age, love, and comforts big and small. They even find time for a well-fluffed pigeon and a reminiscent boogie to the Bee Gees.
Watch Rovers Web Series to see the shenanigans these intrepid, fierce and fun artists get up to when they’re left to their own devices.
Episodes:
• Ep 1 – Redcliffe
• Ep 2 – Glasshouse
• Ep 3 – Toowoomba
• Ep 4 – Stradbroke Island
ABOUT ROVERS
The original stage production, written by Katherine Lyall-Watson, premiered at NORPA in Lismore before playing the Brisbane Festival in 2018. Created out of interviews with the actors about their families, and the amazing pioneering women in their lives, ROVERS is a heart-warming and fast-paced ode to Australia, and the adventurous, imaginative women she creates. And for Lowing and McDonald it was a chance to play themselves in a sometimes-risky, always-honest, journey into their lifelong friendship, a friendship that began in 1996 when they first appeared on stage together in Taming of the Shrew.
ROVERS was back on the road in 2021, with the tour kicking off in Darwin before travelling nationally. ROVERS is available to tour in 2022 & 2023, and more information is available at http://www.belloocreative.com/rovers
credits
Writer | Katherine Lyall-Watson
Co-Creator & Director | Caroline Dunphy
Starring | Roxanne McDonald and Barbara Lowing
Videographer | Shaun Charles
Social Graphics | Robbi James
SUPPORTERS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, and by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts.
“This is theatre at its best.”
““I remain gobsmacked, with lingering scenes, words and music still rattling around my brain. I want to witness it all over again!”
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““Thank you for bringing the stories of these women to the stage I didn’t know I needed it until I saw it””
““under Caroline Dunphy’s direction, the hour-long share of outback tales of trailblazing women flies by as audience imaginations are invigorated and inspired””
““sincere and completely charming””
““Barbara Lowing and Roxanne McDonald are resplendent in Rovers””