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An Australian tennis legend's life comes to the stage

An Australian tennis legend's life comes to the stage

City's Town Hall will be transformed into a tennis arena for Sunshine Super Girl, which charts the rise of Evonne Goolagong Cawley.,

Sunshine Super Girl writer and director Andrea James, right, with Tuuli Narkle, who plays Evonne Goolagong Cawley.  Rhett Wyman

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Early in Sunshine Super Girl, a new stage show about the life of Evonne Goolagong Cawley, the audience sees the tennis legend as a three-year-old in the back of her father's car.

The old clunker has broken down on the dirt road leading to the tin bungalow that is home to Evonne, mum, dad and seven siblings.

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Clare MorganProduction editorClare is a desk editor for The Australian Financial Review. Email Clare at clare.morgan@afr.com.au

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