Maribyrnong writer, actor and singer Jane Clifton is enjoying a whirlwind few weeks, starring in a new stage production and launching her third novel, Flush.
The crime thriller follows the story of a body washed up in the Maribyrnong River.
Female sleuth Decca Brand becomes involved and the action moves from Williamstown to Perth and as far as Kosovo, returning to St Kilda.
Clifton (pictured) says every meaning of the word “flush” features in the story.
“A body which was destined to lie under wet cement is flushed out of a building site into the Maribyrnong River after a massive downpour. There are people flush with money and others with hot flushes. Others have cheeks that are flushed without the delights of menopause. And, of course, eventually a murderer is flushed out.”
The experienced actor, best known for her TV role as Margo in Prisoner, has also been busy rehearsing for Boy out of the Country, a play written in verse by award-winning playwright Felix Nobis, a Monash University medieval poetry lecturer.
The story traces the dramas of a family property, worthless for generations, suddenly rezoned for a regional housing estate. The premiere of the play, as a preview, will be at fortyfive downstairs, Flinders Lane, Melbourne, tonight. The public season is from November 21 to December 8.
