Schoolboys ranked this smart young woman. Her response is thrilling

Emmanuelle Mattana was a whip-smart champion of her high school debating team when she found herself on one of those awful schoolboy lists. Just like the Yarra Valley Grammar students at the centre of a media storm this month, the debaters at Sydney Boys High School had created an Excel spreadsheet to rank the girls according to their attractiveness.

In outline, the scenario resembles the 2021 sexual assault allegations against the then attorney-general, Christian Porter, by a woman known in the media as “Kate”. Mattana acknowledges that the story served as an inspiration for the play.Kate was a brilliant high school debater in 1988 who alleged Porter raped her at the World Universities Championships in Sydney when they were both teenagers.

Early on, Mattana reached out to Dyer – a powerhouse theatre producer, respected for her work with Bangarra Dance Theatre, among other things. Dyer pledged $50 and tweeted her support for indie theatre. A playwriting contest at the Midsumma Festival led to a staged reading. Producer Ben Andrews at The Maybe Pile came on board.was part of an Explorations season at Melbourne’s La Mama to test it in front of an audience. and urged readers to rush to see it.

What about Fran Sweeney-Nash, the nonbinary member of the cast who plays Jared, a jock who’s never been criticised and thinks of himself as the quintessential good bloke?

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