Having graced our stages for over two decades, Angie Milliken
has more than earned a retrospective of her work. Ahead of her
first show here in a decade, The Effect, we open up the
archives to reveal some of Angie's STC highlights...
Angie's first appearance with us was in Richard Wherrett's final
production as Director of STC. Anton Chekhov's Three
Sisterswas adapted by Aubrey Mellor, with Angie playing the
youngest sister, Irina. (Photo: Stuart Campbell)
Two years later, Angie returned as Hero in Much Ado About
Nothing, directed by Wayne Harrison. The spectacular costuming
was the work of Angus Strathie, best know now for his Academy
Award-winning designs for Moulin Rouge. (Photo: Robert
McFarlane)
We had to wait until 1997 before Angie next appeared. This time
it was in Peter Whelan's The Herbal Bed, directed by
Marion Potts. Angie played a fictionalised version of Susanna Hall,
Shakespeare's eldest daughter. Here she appears to be getting
adulterously amorous with Sandy Winton, local
haberdasher and resident hunk. (Photo: Tracey Schramm)
The next year, Angie continued working with Marion Potts as
director in the love quadrangle of Patrick
Marber's Closer. Here Angie and Colin Moody try to
work things out on Genevieve Blanchett's set (yes, they're a very
talented lot those Blanchetts). (Photo: Tracey Schramm)
In 1999, Angie and Robert Menzies appeared opposite one another
in Harold Pinter's Betrayal, directed by David Berthold.
(Photo: Tracey Schramm)
Angie returned twice in 2000, first in Brian Friel's A Month
in the Country (after Turgenev's original), directed by
Lindy Davies. STC stalwart Lauren A. Proetti was in charge of all
that magnificent hair. (Photo: Robert McFarlane)
Angie's second 2000 appearance was alongside Hugo Weaving in the
juicy revenge tragedy The White Devil, adapted from
John Webster's original by director Gale Edwards. This production
also toured to BAM in New York the next year. (Photo: Robert
McFarlane)
In 2001, Angie again featured twice in the season. First up,
with Marcus Graham in Three Days of Rain, directed by
Lindy Davies. (Photo: Robert McFarlane)
And then, Molière's Don Juan, adapted by Andrew
Upton from a translation by Marion Potts (the same duo behind
Cyrano de Bergerac). (Photo: Tracey Schramm)
Her most recent appearance with STC came in 2003, in Tom
Stoppard's The Real Thing. Directed by Robyn Nevin, Angie
again teamed up onstage with Hugo Weaving. (Photo: Tania
Kelley)
The Effect, 10 Jul - 16 Aug 2014, Wharf 1 Theatre