Award-winning playwright, actor and Griffith PhD candidate, Margi Brown Ash, will present a double bill performance of her works He Dreamed a Train and Eve at the Brisbane Powerhouse in late June/July.
It will be the first time the works have been performed as a double bill. As part of her PhD Margi wrote the scripts for He Dreamed a Train and Eve (together with Home, presented by Qld Theatre in 2015). The three plays form a trilogy of belonging and how people find their place in the world.
Margi, who is completing her PhD under the supervision of Professor Michael Balfour, Dr Linda Hassall and Professor Emeritus Bruce Burton, came to her PhD as a mature-age student.
With two master’s degrees in drama and counselling, Margi is no stranger to academe, teaching both areas at QUT for many years, while fitting it around her family and theatre commitments.
“At 65 I’m doing my PhD for very different reasons than someone younger may,’’ she
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