#MARTA DUSSELDORP TASMANIA FREE#

I have a secret one I'm not willing to share, but I can mention Hoshi Onsen, outside Tokyo.įavourite Seat 1A story? Sadly I haven't flown 1A. We're also Japanophiles – we love to go soak in onsens. We also love heavenly New Zealand and we've done the Milford and Routeburn tracks. We've done Cradle Mountain and Freycinet, and I want to get to the Tarkine one day. Places you love to travel to regularly? My husband is from Tasmania, so we go there a lot. After that, I could feel my space better.ĭusseldorp is looking forward to spending time on the beaches of Mozambique with her family. I was a little bit lost as an Australian until I went there and realised I was two things – Australian and Dutch. In my 20s, I went to the Netherlands to see his hometown of Utrecht, and also the small town my grandmother came from. He loved to travel and sail, so we did a lot of that with him. He travelled all over the place, and as kids we visited him in Tahiti, New York and Jamaica. He was a busy man, so we didn't see that much of him. He taught me to be courageous and work hard. That makes him sound cold, but he wasn't. What are your memories of him? He was a highly intelligent, powerful sort of patriarchal figure. Your late grandfather, Dick Dusseldorp, was a Dutch migrant who arrived in Australia in the early 1950s. They were still able to love and I found that heartening and humbling. The people I met had been through so much and yet they were surviving, thriving and nurturing each other. Last year I went to Lebanon and Jordan with UNHCR to meet Syrian refugees. How long have you been a special Australian representative for UNHCR? About eight years. Marta Dusseldorp at the Melbourne Theatre Company headquarters. From that list, I've read Things Fall Apart by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, which is utterly incredible, as well as The Return by Hisham Matar, another amazing book – it's about his journey back to Libya to discover the fate of his father after he was imprisoned by Muammar Gaddafi. In this case, I found a list compiled by Barack Obama of books you should read before going to Africa.

Preparation? The same way I would for a role, by reading widely around the topic – biographies, fiction, history. Then we head up to Uganda for a week with UNHCR. Luxury in itself is not so interesting to me – I want to see the organisation that I travel with is giving back.Īfter that, we'll spend a bit of time in Johannesburg, South Africa,because there's so much history there. We'll also visit the Zambian village of Nakatindi, where Abercrombie & Kent have built a new school classroom along with other projects, including a bike recycling station.Ībercrombie & Kent mix incredible comfort with a deep understanding of place, and that's what I like when I travel. First, we'll do the African Waterways trip with Abercrombie & Kent, taking in Botswana, Zambia and the beautiful beaches of Mozambique. I've never been my husband and our two daughters are coming. In January 2019, the family is off to Africa. It's more about slowly ticking off my dreams.Īnd it clears more space to travel? Definitely. You only have to look at Ocean's 8 to see that – driven by two female leads aged around 50.

Is moving into producing, as many female actors do, something of a buffer against turning the big 5-0? Hang on, I'm 45 – let's not make me 50 just yet! No, there are still great roles for women of all ages. I also still want acting work, but that's not something you can control. 'I still want acting work, but that's not something you can control': Marta Dusseldorp at the Melbourne Theatre Company headquarters. It's no longer a case of people saying: 'Oh no, it's a woman …' Now, it's: 'Oh yay, it's a woman!' That no longer feels like the massive upheaval it once was. Now I want to use them in my own stuff, to try the producing side. I've done three big shows over the past seven years and met all these amazing Australian writers, actors and creators. It gives me time to develop my own projects from the ground up and I've optioned a few books to that end. For the first time in seven years, I'm working on nothing, and it's fabulous.

#MARTA DUSSELDORP TASMANIA FREE#

Acclaimed Australian actor Marta Dusseldorp is looking forward to some free time to explore Africa with her family. She answers our Q&A.Īny work projects keeping you busy as we roll towards end of the year? Nothing.

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