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Julia’s One Woman Show

Fame, Fortune & Lies

JCH alumna and current residential music tutor, Julia Hastings (2010), has
combined her passion for piano performance and the dramatic arts, creating
and performing a one-woman show entitled, Fame, Fortune and Lies:
The Life and Music of Eileen Joyce.

While researching for her 2015 solo recital at the Australian National
Academy of Music, Julia became interested in the life and work of Eileen
Joyce, an Australian concert pianist who enjoyed megastar status in Britain
and Europe from the 1930s to 1960s. Julia was struck by Joyce’s story of
determination and dedication to the professional concert life while at
the same time struggling with personal demons and unhappiness.

The idea of combining a dramatic monologue with the music that Joyce
played throughout her career germinated into the interdisciplinary
performance of Fame, Fortune and Lies. Since its premiere at the
Australian National Academy of Music in 2015, Julia has performed
Fame, Fortune and Lies to much acclaim to audiences across
Victoria, including a season at the 2016 Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Julia is currently working on more interdisciplinary concepts
which will challenge the way classical music has been performed
in the past. With this approach, she hopes to engage audiences
which may never have considered entering the traditional
recital hall but, at the same time, honouring the integral value
of the music. Julia hopes to tour interstate with Fame, Fortune
and Lies in the future.

Reflections from the College Chapel

(continued from page 15)

‘For many, College provides a place to within a collegiate environment’. This might seem, at first
flourish – to meet new people and to glance, a strange thing to ask. But I think, in many ways, this
feel supported in a real community. perspective goes to the very heart of what university is meant
There are many ways to form to be.
community, and communities form
for different reasons. You can form Only the most highly privileged of us on the planet are ever
a community on social media, but given the time, the space, and the resources, to share our
forming a community which everyone would aspire to be part thoughts freely. Through great good fortune, College has given
of – one in which people get a chance to be themselves, to us this time, this space, this right to explore our values, and to
explore their thoughts, to be safe, to try new things, to grow look out beyond ourselves.’
in competence, and to be AFFIRMED – forming this kind of
community takes work. Donna Davies
Director of Studies
Janet Clarke Hall’s statement of values asks its students and
staff to show ‘awareness of the privilege of living and studying

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