Here’s a fun fact about “The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead” at Playhouse in the Park:: both the play and its star began their theatrical lives in Australia.

“Blonde” is by Australian Robert Hewett and premiered in Sydney in 2004 before touring nationally and landing at Canada’s Stratford Festival in 2006. It was a runaway hit and brought back in 2007. Hewett is a hoot – read an interview with him in Thursday’s Enquirer.

Star Annalee Jefferies grew up in Texas, where “my dad was a ranch manager and I worked cattle as a kid.” But back in the Sixties, dad and artist mom decided it would be a fine adventure to take a freighter to faraway places.

They landed in Australia and stayed five years – which is where young Annalee happened on a community theater in “a broken-down church.” It was love at her first smell of greasepaint.

Another fun fact: “Blonde” really is a one-woman show. While Jefferies is swapping costumes – and wigs – there are videos and voiceovers and they are all her – right down to “dogs, cats, the radio.”

Jefferies’ home base remains the family farmhouse (circa 1850s), not too far from Houston, where she’s a resident company member at the Alley Theatre.