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As a five-year-old, Nancye Hayes had an epiphany when she saw the musical Annie Get Your Gun. “I knew then exactly what I wanted to do,” she says. “I kept saying to my mother, ‘When I grow up, I’m going on the stage’. She’d just sigh and say, ‘Oh, that’ll…

A young Simon Burke saw the poster for Nimrod Theatre Company’s The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin, showing a young boy smoking a cigarette, and wondered why he hadn’t been cast in the role. After all, he’d recently done Nimrod’s Kookaburra with The Elocution’s director, Richard Wherrett, and had since been…