All My Love

Australians know writer and poet, Henry Lawson, from his numerous beloved works but not so well known is his contemporary, Mary Gilmore, herself a literary icon and radical socialist.

Audiences can find out about this pair’s secret forbidden romance in the compelling play, All My Love, at the Ipswich Civic Centre on Thursday, 29 October.

All My Love is written by Anne Brooksbank, an accomplished author and writer of film and TV, not to mention the wife of outspoken writer, Bob Ellis. After researching Mary Gilmore’s memoirs, Brooksbank found out that Mary and Henry embarked on a love affair but Mary was caught in the middle of an intense relationship between Henry and his formidable mother, the suffragette Louise Lawson.

The pair became secretly betrothed but the relationship was doomed by a deception. The play takes excerpts from the couple’s surviving letters as part of its material.

Henry and Mary are played by Dion Mills and Kate Denman respectively, with the play being directed by Denny Lawrence, who has a long career in theatre, film and TV to his credit, and produced by Christine Harris and Victorian-based HIT Productions.

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By Vicki Englund

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