Creation and Casting
Alison Quigan was approached by producers to take on the roll of Yvonne, the mother of established character - Maia Jeffries (Anna Jullienne). Quigan was delighted at the idea of full-time acting and accepted. In 2010 Alison Quigan decided to quit the show and found it easy considering the recent departures of two of the three Jeffries girls, Tania and Libby, she stated; "The family had come to a finish. It was time for the show to move onto another family and me onto other projects." She later went on to state the family had "run out of steam" and questioned the number of affairs Yvonne was depicted to indulge in. In January 2011 it was announced Yvonne was leaving the show. The storyline saw Yvonne accept a job offer from best friend Shobna Kumari and move to Australia. She made her last appearance on 9 February 2011. In May 2012 it was announced that Yvonne would be returning to the show alongside the remaining members of the Jeffries family to commemorate Shortland Street's 20th anniversary.
Read more about this topic: Yvonne Jeffries
Famous quotes containing the words creation and/or casting:
“Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the writer is communicating his experience with perfect fullness.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“All we know
Is that we are a little early, that
Today has that special, lapidary
Todayness that the sunlight reproduces
Faithfully in casting twig-shadows on blithe
Sidewalks. No previous day would have been like this.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)