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1942, 65 Australian army nurses were trapped in Singapore when the
Japanese invaded. They were the first Australian women to serve in
battle….and the first to die.
The Shoe-Horn Sonata
is a powerful and compelling play about those women, their triumph,
friendship and survival. It is a play about the enduring friendship of
two of them, Sheila and Bridie.
The play is set in 1995 where Shelia and Bridie
are reunited for the first time, 50 years after the end of the War, for
the filming of a television documentary. At first glance the play is
about their incarceration by the Japanese in a prisoner of war camp
following the fall of Singapore and the brutality and hardship they
experience during those years. As the play develops, we discover more
about Sheila and Bridie and we realise that this reunion is essential if their emotional wounds are to be healed.
Written by John Misto (Harp on the Willow)
this beautifully crafted play about two extraordinary women has become
an Australian theatre classic that has won rave reviews since its first
performance in 1995.
Belinda Giblin is one of
Australia’s most distinguished stage and screen actors. She has worked
for Griffin, Ensemble, Marian Street, Queensland Theatre Company,
Belvoir Street, Playbox, Twelfth Night and Nimrod, amongst others.
Maggie Kirkpatrick created one of Australia’s most memorable drama characters in Australian television history, Joan Ferguson
(‘the Freak”) in Prisoner, and at the same time achieved the
distinction of being one of our most admired and respected theatrical
leading ladies. Maggie co-starred with Susannah York in the London production of The Shoe-Horn Sonata at the Kings Head Theatre.
‘the
play is a powerful memorial and an absorbing, amusing and inspiring
evening of theatre. Maggie Kirkpatrick has made Bridie her own and
she’s magnificent…Belinda Giblin is hilariously prissy….a dynamic
memorial to the lives of the women it remembers” Sunday Telegraph 2005
Christine Dunstan Productions presents
The Shoe-Horn Sonata
by John Misto
Directed by Jennifer Hagan
Designer Graham Maclean
Lighting Design Trudy Dalcleish
Starring Maggie Kirkpatrick and Belinda Giblin
Venue: Alexander Theatre, Monash University | Wellington Road, Clayton
Dates/Times: Tuesday March 27 @ 8pm & Wednesday March 28 @ 1pm & 8pm
Tickets: from $22 to $38
Bookings: 9905 1111 (9.30am–4.30pm Mon- Fri) or www.monash.edu.au/monart
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