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2 unusual facts about Richard Wherrett


Richard Wherrett

Turandot, Giacomo Puccini's final opera, was a lavish production starring Corneliu Murgu, Olivia Stapp and Glenys Fowles, with the State Orchestra of Victoria conducted by Richard Divall.

He directed 127 professional theatre productions, including Hag by Sally Morrison at the 1976 National Playwrights Festival.


Katherine Thomson

As writer in residence for the Sydney Theatre Company in 1995, Thomson wrote Fragments of Hong Kong and in 1997 a production of Navigating, directed by Richard Wherrett, with Jacki Weaver as Bea, was staged by the Queensland and Melbourne Theatre companies.


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