Kate Mulvany has found international fame in 2020 playing gun-toting, Nazi-hunting nun Sister Harriet in the Amazon series Hunters, opposite Al Pacino.
But she will start 2021 closer to heart and home, bringing a stage adaptation of Ruth Park’s iconic Sydney story Playing Beatie Bow — a childhood favourite that she read growing up in Western Australia — to Sydney Theatre Company’s renovated Wharf Theatre in February.
Mulvany wrote the play while in lockdown in Sydney’s inner-west, where she lives.
“It was, in a way, a gift to lock myself away in the world of Ruth and the world of Beatie…
