Caroline McKenzie is an Australian stage and screen actress. She is a member of the theatre and dance faculty at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University.[1][2]
Television
Her television work includes Ship to Shore, The Shark Net and The Sleepover Club.
She appeared in two TV films about the 1982 theft of gold bullion from the Perth Mint : The Great Gold Swindle (1984) as Detective Cvijic and The Great Mint Swindle (2012) as Peg Mickelberg.
Theatre
Her theatre work includes:
- The 20s and All That Jazz, The Cherry Orchard, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Fen and Safety in Numbers[3] for The Hole in the Wall Theatre.
- Godspell, Chicago, The Jack the Ripper Show, On Our Selection, A Chorus of Disapproval, Company, Sisterly Feelings[4] and Barnum for The Playhouse Theatre (Perth) (productions broadcast on Australian National Theatre Live).
- The Philadelphia Story for Sydney Theatre Company.
- The Man From Mukinupin for Q Theatre.[5]
- Ridin' High (as Ethel Merman) for Griffin Theatre Company.[6]
- Face to Face (on tour around Australia and Brazil) and The Turning for Perth Theatre Company.
- The Crucible and Dust for the Black Swan State Theatre Company[7][8][9]
- Coram Boy for the Midnite Youth Theatre Company.
Reviews
A reviewer wrote of her performance in The Turning, "a malevolent matriarch as corrosive in her effect on a family as any military dictator on a nation's destiny. Caroline McKenzie's Nan, steely and precise in gesture, is a fine study in understated menace."[10] A review of The Crucible said, "Caroline McKenzie delivers accuser Ann Putnam’s grief over her seven still-born babies with a pinch-faced intensity that almost makes her accusations understandable."[7]
References
- ^ "Caroline McKenzie - Principal Academy of Dance & Theatre Arts". principalacademy.wa.edu.au. Archived from the original on 25 October 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "MIMMA". MIMMA. Archived from the original on 31 May 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Archived from the original on 25 October 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ Gillam, Cliff (November 1981). "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Sisterly Feelings, State of Siege". Theatre Australia. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
- ^ Evans, Bob (22 April 1986). "Puzzles from a vast, imaginative terrain". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 16. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
- ^ Bishop, Pat (9 March 1986). "Stage. Ridin' High - The Ethel Merman Story, at The Stables". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 118. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
- ^ a b Fitzhardinge, Jennie (22 May 2007). "Adding style to The Crucible". PerthNow.
- ^ ZAMPATTI, David (9 July 2014). "Winners all round when Dust settles". The West Australian. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
- ^ Shaw, Kimberley. "Dust". Stage Whispers. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
- ^ "Retooled Winton tales travel well | The Australian". Archived from the original on 15 December 2012.
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