Theatrical Memoir
Middle Class Fantasies
A theatrical memoir of producing plays, running a pub and navigating the personalities behind the curtain. It opens in Australia in 1986, as Wilton Morley prepares for the arrival of Rex Harrison.
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The audience sees the star. The producer sees the bills. Australia, nineteen eighty-six. Wilton Morley is bringing Rex Harrison back to the stage. The name is legendary. The pressure is very real. Between rehearsals, demanding personalities and the next opening night, another dream is taking shape: a pub of his own. What could possibly go wrong? The renovation costs climb. The money runs short. Then a telephone rings at six in the morning, and an unpaid wine bill becomes a crisis he cannot ignore. How do you keep a show on the road when your own life is coming apart? A candid memoir of ambition, absurdity, and the cost of chasing the life you imagined. Middle Class Fantasies. By Wilton Morley. Read what happened behind the curtain.
A producer trying to keep a star-led theatre tour and a pub afloat as the bills catch up.
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About the book
A theatrical memoir of producing plays, running a pub and negotiating the unpredictable personalities around both, Middle Class Fantasies begins in Australia in 1986. Wilton Morley is preparing to meet Rex Harrison at the airport while also dealing with the daily life of the Sydney pub he owns.
The opening chapter moves from a morning conversation with a neighbour to the financial and personal complications of the Geebung Polo Club. The confidence required to put a show on the road proves no guarantee of an easy life behind the bar. Morley recounts the exchanges, practical troubles and conflicting expectations that accompany his work, allowing the business of theatre to share the page with the life going on just outside it.
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