The Sydney Theatre Company’s epic historical drama The Harp in the South won the Major Award in the 52nd AWGIE Awards tonight. Image by Daniel Boud.
AWGIES 2019 was very much theatre’s night to win, because Kate Mulvany’s adaptation of Ruth Park’s trilogy The Harp in the South had already won the hearts of writers who saw it or managed to read the play as it ran at the Sydney Theatre Company. Even its scope had a touch of magnificence – it was in two parts and paid homage to the city’s past, in a world far from its middle class toffs.