Iris
Television (Excerpts) – 1984
Pioneering poet, author and journalist Robin Hyde was originally Iris Wilkinson. Directed by Tony Isaac (The Governor), this ambitious co-production for television mines quotations from Wilkinson's writing to dramatise her life. In a parallel plotline, a writer, actor and director wrestle with how to capture Iris on screen. For Australian Helen Morse (Picnic at Hanging Rock) playing Iris was a privilege — and her "most difficult" role to date. Morse concluded that Iris was "extraordinarily vulnerable emotionally". This excerpt includes a cameo by the writer's real life son Derek Challis.
Brilliant, beautiful, difficult and doomed.– Derek Challis on his mother Iris Wilkinson, in his book The Book of Life: A Life of Robin Hyde
Key Cast & Crew
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Produced by
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Endeavour Productions
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Aotea Enterprises
Source
Endeavour Productions
Music
Music produced by Dave Fraser
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