RBG: Of Many One

Sydney Morning Herald

Stage Noise

ArtsHub

The AU Review

Limelight Magazine

Time Out

By Suzie Miller

Director: Priscilla Jackman
Designer: David Fleisher
Lighting Designer: Alexander Berlage
Composer and Sound Designer: Paul Chalier
Voice and Dialect Coach: Jennifer White
Production and Rehearsal Photographer: Prudence Upton
Cast: Heather Mitchell

Sydney Theatre Company

2022 World Premier Season: Sydney Theatre Company 4 Nov – 17 Dec

2023 National Tour Season: Sydney Theatre Company – Drama Theatre Opera House; Brisbane – QPAC, Melbourne – The Arts Centre, Wollongong, Canberra Theatre Centre, Riverside Parramatta, Black Swan – Perth

About the project

After a wildly popular, sold-out premiere season in 2022, this smash-hit production returns to stages across Australia, on national tour with the brilliant Heather Mitchell reviving her award-winning “virtuosic performance” (The Conversation) of the woman who changed the face of the American legal system: the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The second woman to be appointed to the US Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was both a trailblazer in the American judiciary and a fierce advocate for gender equality and reproductive rights. Now, her life is brought to the stage by the extraordinary pen of Olivier Award-winning Australian playwright Suzie Miller (Prima Facie), in a story that chronicles Ginsburg’s wins and dissents, traces her steps forward and the steps back, and brings you right into the room with Ruth at the most pivotal moments of her life.

Director Priscilla Jackman reunites with Mitchell with whom she pioneered another historic biographical play, Still Point Turning: The Catherine McGregor Story, to bring RBG: Of Many One to audiences across Australia in 2024. Winner of Best Actor, the Sydney Theatre Awards 2022, Heather returns to the national stage, to reconjure RBG in this once-in-a-generation theatrical event that is “magnificent from start to finish” (Limelight).