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Maggie Dence on the audience reaction to Wake in Fright
Title:
Maggie Dence on the audience reaction to Wake in Fright
NFSA ID
745009
Year
2007
Courtesy
Maggie Dence
In this excerpt from a video oral history interview with actress Maggie Dence, she recalls the reaction of the audience at the first cast and crew screening of Wake in Fright in Sydney, 1971.
Maggie had only a small role (as Receptionist) in Wake in Fright, her first film, but went on to have a long and successful career in film and TV and on stage.
Among the long-running TV series she has appeared in are The Sullivans (in 1976–77), A Country Practice (1981–89), Prisoner (1984), Neighbours (1993) and All Saints (1998–2003).
Brendan Horgan interviewed Maggie Dence for the NFSA in 2007.
Notes by Stephen Groenewegen
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.