Bad-girl role a change

Press, 16 August 1988, Page 19

Bad-girl role a change

Megan Edwards is used to being the star of the stage. In the last few years at Auckland’s Mercury Theatre she has played Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet,” Wendy in “Peter Pan” and Major Barbara in the play of the same name. But her “Gloss” debut tonight is her first time in front of the cameras.

She plays the kittenish Kimberley Jokovich, recently arrived from Sydney to visit her mother, Sophie, who has become involved with Alistair Redfern.

Megan Edwards says she is loving the television experience, and enjoying playing “a bitch with a capital B.” “I usually play sweet

young things,” she says. “The nearest I’ve got to being a bitch until now was playing an ugly sister in a fairy tale — Kimberley is a refreshing change.” Edwards attended the year-long Theatre Corporae Drama course with Simon Prast (Alistair Redfern) in 1984. Since then she has appeared with him in two stage productions. The Mercury theatre has provided full-time work since 1985, and at the moment Edwards is rehearsing with her “Gloss” mother, Catherine Wilkin, for “Yerma,” which opens at the end of the month.