🎭 Amanda Keller's Rave Review Of 'RBG: Of Many, One'

Amanda had a night at the theatre!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation when I'm.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
On a school line last night and I never do
and it reminded me about how great it is to
do it. I wanted to see a show at the
Opera House, but I met my friend Catherine beforehand at
the Opera bar. Chokers, people everywhere, eating, drinking. There's a
whole life that because of these crazy hours we do,
I never see during the week.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
It was so nice and what did you see?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, this was an extraordinary show that I've heard so
much about and I really wondered how does it work.
It's called RBG of Many One. It's a story of
Ruth Beata Ginsburg. It's a one woman show with one
of Australia's most fabulous actresses, Heather Mitchell. And this is
a tour de force. I think it is one of
the best things I have ever seen. And it starts

(00:47):
with Ruth Bata Ginsburg, who was the only the second
woman ever to join the Supreme Court in the US
and she was so instrumental in advocating for gender equality
for reproductive rights. She served well into her eighties I think.
Actually she was seventy nine, I think. But she made
so many she was part of so many landmark decisions

(01:10):
to help women. It was quite her tenure was quite extraordinary.
But this one woman show, it's just Heather and it
is amazing. It begins with her waiting for President Clinton
to phone her to see whether she's made it onto
the Supreme Court bench, and then it goes back through
other parts of her life and then Heather, I don't
know how she does it. She can walk across the
stage and then just come back as an eighty year

(01:31):
old woman.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
What's it with a costume change? Like a bit of
a stoop?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yes, walking physically just so different, but it's so emotional.
And when you look at the term all America is
in now with a Supreme Court because this is what happens.
You serve while you are able, and if that's till
the day you die, then that's to the day you die.
And they cover in this she has a meeting with
so she joins the bench during Clinton's tenure. Then she
has a meeting with Obama, and she's the only performer

(01:59):
on stage kind of embodies their voices as well to say,
here's what happened, and Obama was saying delicately pretty much
to her. Look you're getting really old. If you die
when Obama's tenure is up, then what if a Republican
gets in, they get to a point someone they want
on the Supreme Court. And she says, I've still got

(02:21):
so much work to do. So she said, stuff you,
I'm going to keep I'm going to stay alive and
keep working. And then of course Donald Trump gets in,
and so she's trying so hard to stay alive to
the end of his reign and of his four years,
so that he doesn't get to a point her predecessor.
And of course she dies forty days before the end,

(02:43):
and he puts Amy Comy. I think her name is
in there. And so the whole balance shifted. Reproductive rights
have ring recalled. Roe v. Wade is being recoiled, recalled.
The whole Supreme Court has shifted so diametrically to the right.
And this is what you see during her tenure, Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, is that the Republicans and the Democrats admired

(03:06):
each other's brains on the Supreme Court. They all they
all enjoyed the feistiness of their discussions. It's so splintered now.
So this was an incredible moment of history. It's written
by an Australian woman, Heather Mitchell. It's the role of
a lifetime. It's on till the thirtieth of March at
the Opera House. If you get a chance, go and
see it. It was so incredible and emotional and amazing.

(03:28):
Really my best night of theater I've ever had.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Son's sent in One Woman in Place since I saw
Shirley Valentine with Amanda Mankleton. Yeah, like I remember like
seeing it like and she was great up. But there's
a bit where you come back at half time she's
just in the news.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
It is unusual because in the actual movie her moment
of liberation happens right at the end of the film,
with that moment of jumping off the boat. When you
come back at half time, you don't expect to.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
See her came back from the chock top.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Jeez, I thought you'd walked into the wrong theater. When
I saw it, there was a drunk guy. Actually maybe
it was the same night as you a sleep in front.
He wakes up having been asleep for most of the
play to see a naked woman in front of him.
Wasn't just thought he'd gone to heaven.