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Winds of Change By: Simon Yeaman SUNDAY
HERALD SUN: TV EXTRA: INSIDER CASSANDRA Magrath, the young actor who made such an impression as Sigrid Thornton's on-screen daughter, Miranda, in SeaChange, comes of age on the stage this week in her first professional role. Ironically, she will play another schoolgirl in the Melbourne premiere of award-winning British play Bold Girls (also featuring Michelle Williams, Joan Murray and Louise O'Dwyer), which will run for four weeks at Chapel off Chapel, in Prahran. A bittersweet drama about the effect of urban war on a group of women in Belfast, Magrath's character, 16-year-old Deidre, represents the darker, less forgiving side of conflict and endemic hatred. She will be hardly recognisable to SeaChange fans. "Deidre is very dirty, scruffy, covered in cuts and bruises,'' Magrath says. "She has been beaten by her stepfather, and prefers to live on the streets of Belfast." "When she comes into the lives of the other women, she becomes the catalyst for stirring up old feelings (of sectarian hatred).'' These images are a far cry not only from that of Miranda, but also the "wicked'', cutting-edge young thing (Pi) she plays in the hip children's drama The Crash Zone (Seven, Saturday 9am). Magrath, 19, finished school and now living away from home, is a star on the rise. Her impressive turn as the rapidly maturing and sexually awakening Miranda in SeaChange, particularly the latter episodes opposite William McInnes's Max Connor, signalled that Magrath will evolve into a fine adult actor. Particularly now that she is broadening her range. "People still tell me in the street that I look like that girl in SeaChange,'' she says with a laugh. Is she over it? "I'm certainly over the thought that there might be another series,'' she says. In the meantime, the stage beckons, plus possibly a third series of The Crash Zone, and, perhaps even more impressively, Magrath has just won the role of presenter for the ABC's planned new digital youth channel. Bookings for Bold Girls can be made by calling 03-9522 3390. |
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