The artistic director of Red Stitch is staging Ray Lawler’s The Doll Trilogy, centred on the iconic play that upended local theatre back in 1955. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll is feted as the first authentically Australian play, with quintessentially Australian characters speaking a quintessentially local vernacular. He must have had some love or some longing to revisit them.” The cast of Red Stitch’s Doll Trilogy, including Ngaire Dawn Fair, centre. She actually did have this really fun, incredible life and they did all go through so much together.” Fair’s real-life partner, Ben Prendergast, plays Roo in this production. Frankie J. Holden and Genevieve Picot as Roo and Olive in a 1995 production of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.