What Goes Around Comes Around

‘Across the board – female or male, a child, a teenager, a 30-something woman, an elderly man – [Rayson] just gets how words fall from a mouth ... Familial conversations bubble and tumble – they pass from being hilariously intellectual to astoundingly mean to boringly domesticated to gently philosophical in a single sitting round the dinner table. And we love them for their contradictions because, of course, they are us.’


In What Goes Around Comes Around, Kate Mulvany presents a contemporary response to a treasured Australian play – a personal and rousing take on Hotel Sorrento by Hannie Rayson. 


What Goes Around Comes Around is part of Cue the Chorus, a series of ten thought-provoking responses to classic Australian stories. The other titles in the series are:


1. An Ever-Changing Idiom by Alana Valentine – a response to Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler


2. The Makings of a Man by John Harding – a response to No Sugar by Jack Davis


3. Playing Awkward by Noëlle Janacewska – a response to The Chapel Perilous by Dorothy Hewett


4. Pulling Rabbits Out of Hats by Melissa Reeves – a response to Speaking in Tongues by Andrew Bovell


5. Radiant Women on Radiant Country by Andrea James – a response to Radiance by Louis Nowra


6. Robin Shall Restore Amends by Hilary Bell – a response to Away by Michael Gow


7. Still Waters by Wesley Enoch – a response to The Secret River by Kate Grenville; an adaptation for the stage by Andrew Bovell


8. The Unexpected Feminist by Van Badham – a response to The Removalists by David Williamson


9. A Youth Presumed by Finegan Kruckemeyer – a response to Blackrock by Nick Enright