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Nobody Nowhere author, Donna Williams has a Melbourne Musical

July23

Donna Williams performing Footsteps of a Nobody at The Carlton Courthouse Footsteps of a Nobody is getting a 2nd showing!

Footsteps of a Nobody is a powerful one woman rock-musical from Donna Williams, author of the international bestseller, Nobody Nowhere; Autobiography of an Autistic Girl. Through characterisations, gestural signing, evocative spoken word and song it traces Donna’s pivotal experiences from a meaning deaf, meaning blind feral child to homelessness and life as a domestic prostitute and on to her ultimate fight to claim a place of equality among others.

REVIEWS OF DONNA WILLIAMS’ BOOKS:
THE NEW YORK TIMES: She allows us to understand our own perceptions as never before.
PEOPLE MAGAZINE: By turns fascinating and harrowing…
WEEKEND REVIEW: …evocative, poetic…compelling, shocking, gut-wrenchingly moving…
DAILY TELEGRAPH: Powerful and unique.
THE GLOBE AND MAIL: deserves every superlative a reviewer can muster.

BOOKINGS: 9329 8821

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4 Comments to

“Nobody Nowhere author, Donna Williams has a Melbourne Musical”

  1. On August 8th, 2009 at 6:48 pm Spencer Says:

    This sounds soooo exciting!!! 😀 😀 😀 Will any of this be available on YouTube?

  2. On August 8th, 2009 at 9:22 pm donna Says:

    My father was very like Gene Wilder in Willy Wonker. He had made up names for everything and did lots of characterisations and voices. He was quite like Marcel Marceau crossed with Gene Wilder. The characters of Brookenstein Fox, the Boogerlooger, Charlie Warmton are all his. Gadoodleborger, Bluster McFluster, the Whirly-twirl Girl and Grumpty-do’s are mine. They’re actually adjectives turned into names. When I started to use functional speech around age 9-11 all my nouns, verbs, adjectives were interchangeable. I still nounify adjectives and verbify nouns 🙂

  3. On August 8th, 2009 at 9:23 pm donna Says:

    We’re going to do a kind of ‘live’ audio recording of the show so the soundtrack will be available, hopefully this year. We will hopefully get some YouTube footage soon. 🙂

  4. On August 25th, 2009 at 4:21 am Paul Spears is back with The Aspinauts « Donna and the Aspinauts Says:

    […] have him back with the team and just in time for two shows of Footsteps of a Nobody, the first at Spencers Live on Friday Aug 14th and the other at Wodonga Civic Centre on Saturday Sept 12th.    Welcome back […]