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Sunday: performance from Robyn Archer's The Pack of Women

1983

Sunday: performance from Robyn Archer's The Pack of Women

1983

  • NFSA IDV117Q13K
  • TypeTelevision
  • MediumMoving Image
  • FormSeries
  • GenresCurrent affairs
  • Year1983

This clip from Sunday in 1983 features the cast from the stage production of The Pack of Women –Jane Clifton, Judi Connelli and Michele Fawdon– singing ‘Waiting Too Long’ to promote the show’s first highly successful Australian tour. Seeing the original cast perform the song gives a sense of what the stage show may have been like before it was adapted for TV in 1986 with Connelli as the only returning cast member.

Whether presented on stage or on screen, Archer’s lyrics in ‘Waiting Too Long’ combine the biting edge of cabaret with the earworm melodies and emotional depth of her early roots in protest songs. Her lyrics are funny, biting and – given the ongoing gender pay gap - still pack a punch in 2025.

Read more about Robyn Archer and the Pack of Women

This clip from Sunday in 1983 features the cast from the stage production of The Pack of Women –Jane Clifton, Judi Connelli and Michele Fawdon– singing ‘Waiting Too Long’ to promote the show’s first highly successful Australian tour. Seeing the original cast perform the song gives a sense of what the stage show may have been like before it was adapted for TV in 1986 with Connelli as the only returning cast member.

Whether presented on stage or on screen, Archer’s lyrics in ‘Waiting Too Long’ combine the biting edge of cabaret with the earworm melodies and emotional depth of her early roots in protest songs. Her lyrics are funny, biting and – given the ongoing gender pay gap - still pack a punch in 2025.

Read more about Robyn Archer and the Pack of Women

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