Actors might joke about dying on stage, but Genevieve Morris’ latest play actually has her preparing for the great hereafter. She’s the star of MTC’s one-woman show, Dying: A Memoir , adapted by writer Benjamin Law from Cory Taylor’s masterful last book. The play’s subject is right there in the title, and it’s had cast and crew thinking hard about the inevitable.

“One of the dramaturges and I made a pact that by the end of this season, we’ll have both done our wills. We’ve both got children. I’ve been through two bouts of cancer and treatment and I don’t have a will. How ridiculous,” says Morris.

Writer Benjamin Law and actor Genevieve Morris, who say Dying: A Memoir pays homage to those you’ve lost. Credit: PENNY STEPHENS

Taylor was an Australian writer whose two novels, Me an

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