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Author Talk – Ned Manning
February 3 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Author Talk with Ned Manning – Painting The Light
A 2023 Seniors Festival Event
Friday 3 February, 11.30am
Bookings Essential. 6333 6281. Tea and coffee provided
Painting The Light
Nell Hope escapes the constraints of being the daughter of one of Australia’s leading merino breeders to pursue her dream of becoming an artist in Paris. At the same time, Alec Murray turns his back on the legal career his father has mapped out for him to try his luck converting scrub country in Central Western New South Wales into viable farming land.
Hitler’s march into Europe brings their dreams to a shuddering halt.
Nell’s forced home to work on the family property, while Alec enlists and joins the war effort in on the other side of the world.
Over champagne in Sydney’s glamourous new nightclub, Nell and Alec begin a whirlwind wartime romance. But their experiences of the war change them. Together, they’re driven by a vision of a new, fairer Australia, even though they know they’ll be ostracised by family and friends alike as they work to achieve it.
Based on real people and events in Australian history, Painting the Light is a story of love between two people and their love for their country
Author Bio
Ned’s plays have been produced in Australia and overseas. His plays are performed and studied in schools throughout Australia.
Ned was the first Australian playwright to write about the Stolen Generation when he wrote Close to the Bone with his students at the Eora Centre for Aboriginal Visual and Performing Arts in Redfern. Close to the Bone toured NSW and has had a number of productions throughout the country. His follow up play on the same subject, Luck of the Draw, was the first play written by a white writer to be produced by Queensland’s Indigenous theatre company, Kooemba Jdaraa.
As an actor, Ned has appeared in some of Australia’s most loved film, television and theatre productions including: Looking for Alibrandi, Offspring, The Shiralee, Bodyline, Aftershocks, The Sullivans, Home and Away and Neighbors. He played the lead role in the 1980’s cult classic, Dead End Drive-In.
His most recent performance was in the Foxtel series Mr Inbetween in 2021.
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