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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Sally Pryor

From Cate Blanchett to Canberra: love of a lifetime leads to capital

Daniel Clarke, head of programming at the Canberra Theatre Centre, in a jacket by First Nations artist Jessica Johnson. Picture by Elesa Kurtz

Daniel Clarke is on his way to work at the Magic Cave, Santa's Christmas Grotto in Adelaide, when a particularly glowing figure boards the same suburban bus.

Clarke is a 19-year-old drama nerd, shortly to head to the UK to study theatre in Manchester, and still in raptures over a production of The Tempest he has seen a few days earlier.

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