Haunted by Afghanistan, Sally Sara turned her trauma into a play
After suffering a breakdown when she returned to Australia, the award-winning journalist dug deep to write a script based on her experience as a foreign correspondent struggling to fit in back home.
When her debut play has its opening night at Sydney’s Belvoir St Theatre on Wednesday, it will have been five years, seven months and 18 days since Sally Sara began the process. Not that she’s counting.
Those 2057 days have involved a dozen or more drafts, being rejected by nine theatre companies and finally finding a supporter in Belvoir artistic director Eamon Flack. Even in the weeks before the first preview of Stop Girl on Saturday, overnight rewrites have been done.
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