ABOUT SALLY

"... incendiary performances from Sally McLean as "Katharina" and Miguel Perez as "Petruchio" ... I really felt like I got a completely new insight into their relationship, and particularly the character of "Katharina"."

“… polished, beautifully made series from director/producer Sally McLean … A fine use of the platform and, more importantly, a very fine adaptation of the Bard … Shakespeare Republic is put together with grace and wit. An assortment of actors do terrific work making the (non-dumbed down) dialogue accessible, prying it open with great care and skill.”

“… Sally McLean as the ‘Nurse’ – which also means a kind of choric narrator – carries and expounds the text in a mellifluous voice with great confidence, authority and a feel for the timing of the rhetoric … beautiful, disciplined performance …”

“… an utterly convincing performance as the old Scottish King, belying the fact that McLean is not only young and a woman, but also Australian.”

"Sally McLean as “Val Crane”, the embittered aunt of the lead character, found tremendous light and shade in a role that could have easily been played on the one angry note. Instead of taking that obvious road, she showed her depth of talent, giving Val a compelling complexity and believability while negotiating some very tricky plot points, which a lesser actor would have found impossible to navigate with any truth."

 “... the standouts were … Sally McLean (“Katherine”) who drew an achingly beautiful and entirely convincing portrait of a woman in crisis and conflict, caught between her love for and abject fear of a brutal husband.”

“The cast are all superb actors … "Judith" (played by Sally McLean), starts off as a likable, genuine character … McLean gave the character great vulnerability and depth, as well as being convincing as an early sufferer of MS …”