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Feb 17, 2022 · Lunch with singer and actor Maggie McKenna, who plays the lead in Jagged Little Pill. Eddie Jim. It’s a highlight of Jagged Little Pill, the musical inspired by Morissette’s 1995 album of the same name, running in Melbourne until the end of March.
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I was very confused as a kid, both gender-wise and sexuality-wise. I never wanted to stand out or be noticed — which is kind of funny, given I perform now. But I was very shy, and still am. I just wanted to exist, and I didn't want to have to deal with what my identity meant. So I hid in hyper femininity. I'm privileged that I did pass, that I was ...
The conversation around awards and categories is complicated, but I do think the gender thing should eventually go. I think there needs to be more discussion on why awards are so gendered and so binary. It's been really cool [with the Sydney Theatre Awards] to go, "Oh, I'm just being recognised for who I am". I'm not being put into a box of how you...
Getting to play queer roles has been incredible. I think Fun Homereally helped me feel confident in a public setting to be more authentically queer and non-binary. And it was such a loved role, and people really related to it. I feel the same way with Jagged Little Pill. I get a lot of queer young people and parents of queer and trans kids coming u...
Maggie McKenna and Tim Draxl cannot wait to return to the stage. Written by. Stephen A Russell. Thursday 2 December 2021. When Alanis Morissette unleashed her third studio album Jagged...
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Jan 31, 2022 · Played by Maggie McKenna, Jo’s powerful rendition of You Oughta Know is indescribably good. Literally, indescribable. So we let McKenna do the talking. “You Oughta Know is that real gutsy ‘fuck you’ song that we’ve all wanted to sing to someone… We all connect to Jo because watching someone get left by someone else is something a ...
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Nov 26, 2021 · Its latest iteration is the Tony award-winning Jagged Little Pill: The Musical. Perhaps best-known for the immortal lyric, “Would she go down on you in the theatre?” (from the break-up anthem You Oughta Know ), the original album addresses the perennial themes of unrequited love, growing up, ageism, sexism, perfectionism and loneliness head on.
Dec 10, 2021 · Theatre Royal, December 9. It’s a mighty song and when it comes, Maggie McKenna, playing Jo, spits it out with a heartfelt facsimile of the venom with which Alanis Morissette sang it – earning a spontaneous standing ovation.
Dec 9, 2021 · Maggie McKenna as Jo (Photo: Daniel Boud) JAGGED LITTLE PILL will satisfy fans of Alanis Morissette's music and is engaging for those less familiar with the Canadian American's work....
