Ugly Mugs: sex and violence on and off stage

A background on the St Kilda streets, has given a social worker, actress and playwright the content for a disturbingly real play.
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Peta Brady, Image supplied

 Peta Brady had been a health alcohol and drug outreach worker on the streets of St Kilda for two years when sex worker Kelly Hodge was found murdered, wrapped in a red blanket and dumped in a gutter 50km north of Melbourne.

Devastated, the 30-year-old actress and social worker thought the world would stop, that there would be a minute’s silence, something.

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Annika Priest
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Annika Priest is Entertainment Editor at Leader Newspapers and a freelance writer.