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Fly Girl

Fly Girl

By Genevieve Hegney and Catherine Moore
ISBN
9781761730351
Publisher
Currency Press
Publication Date
16 October 2025
Edition
CTS
Format
Paperback
Availability
Available
Categories
Plays
$25.99
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Description
It's the late 70s and the Australian Aviation Industry is a boy's club. The only job women are allowed involves wearing heels, lighting smokes and serving nuts. Deborah Lawrie's got the chops to fly the big jets, but Reg Ansett won't let her. From the comedic geniuses who brought you UNQUALIFIED and STILL UNQUALIFIED, Genevieve Hegney and Catherine Moore use their trademark humour to unpack the absurd obstacles faced by a trailblazing aviatrix who refused to be grounded. Inspired by a true story, FLY GIRL embarks on Deborah's turbulent journey to becoming Australia's first female commercial airline pilot. Fasten your seat belts for a soaring celebration of one woman's relentless fight to achieve her dreams. Let FLY GIRL fly! This story is based on actual events. However certain details, characters, and timelines have been changed for dramatic purposes and certain characters may be composites or entirely fictitious. Co-published with Ensemble Theatre.
Biographies
Genevieve Hegney
Genevieve Hegney

GENEVIEVE HEGNEY and Catherine Moore have been acting, singing, teaching, producing, directing, devising, coaching and improvising across film, television and theatre for over 25 years. Genevieve’s work includes; Ensemble Theatre: Unqualified (co-writer), Unqualified 2: Still Unqualified (co-writer). Bell Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, Antony & Cleopatra. Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing. Belvoir: Parramatta Girls, Love. Sydney Theatre Company: Tot Mom, Influence. Film: Riptide, The Little Death. Television: Colin from Accounts (S1&S2), Sunny Nights, All Her Fault, In Our Blood, Pieces of Her, Young Rock, The Commons, Dairy of an Uber Driver, Doctor Doctor (S2&S3). Janet King (S2), The Kettering Incident, The Moodys, Camp, Devil’s Dust. Training: National Institute of Dramatic Arts, Bachelor of Dramatic Arts 1999, University of Western Australia, Bachelor of Arts 1996.

Catherine Moore
Catherine Moore

CATHERINE MOORE and Genevieve Hegney have been acting, singing, teaching, producing, directing, devising, coaching and improvising across film, television and theatre for over 25 years. Catherine’s work includes; Ensemble Theatre: Unqualified 2: Still Unqualified (co-writer), Unqualified (co-writer), Becky Shaw, Casanova, And The Cow Jumped Over The Moon, You Talkin’ To Me? The Dairy of an Olympic Cabbie. Bell Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It. Black Swan State Theatre Company: Speaking in Tongues, The Tempest, Far Away. Darlinghurst Theatre Company: Memory of Water. Griffin Theatre Company: The Seven Needs, Motortown. Film: Birthright, Runt, How to Please a Woman, H is for Happiness, Being Gavin, Celestial Avenue. Television: The Twelve (S3), Invisible Boys, Itch (S1&S2), Home and Away, The Kettering Incident, A Moody Christmas, Crownies, Rake, Spritied (S1&S2), Chandon Pictures, Big Reef. Training: Victorian College of the Arts School of Drama 2001.

Book Data
Cast Info 4F, 1M, (doubling available)
Genres Australian History, Comedy
Themes Gender diverse themes, Political/Social themes, Significant female roles
Audiences Adult
Extent 106
Edition CTS
Size 137 x 210 mm
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