Performance Dates
4 May 2006 – 20 May 2006May 2006
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Details
- Playwright
- Noëlle Janaczewska
- Director
- Chris Bendall
Addressfortyfive downstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Season: Fri 5th May - Sun 21st May
(Tues – Sat 8pm, Sun 5pm)
Preview: Thurs 4th May
Forum: Wednesday 10th May with Director & Writer
Tix: $27 adults / $22 seniors & MEAA / $18 students, under 25 & unwaged
Preview & Tight Tuesday (9th May): $15
Fortyfivedownstairs
MRS PETROV'S SHOE
Hinting at the Petrov Affair and exploring Cold War fears of 'Reds under every Bed', this is a beautifully comic and thoroughly entertaining new play by AWGIE award winning Sydney playwright. “I took the map to my bedroom, spread it on the counterpane and tried to pinpoint the suburb of Exile where so many of my parent’s friends resided… I couldn’t find Exile on the map. But I knew it was there, bone-tired and blistered, big-drinking, full of Slavic syllables, terrible hardships and fierce debate.” Mrs Petrov’s Shoe
On the afternoon of 19 April, 1954 Evdokia Petrov, wife of a recently defected Soviet spy was dragged, weeping and one foot bare, across the tarmac at Sydney’s Mascot Airport to be sent back to the USSR. Forty years later in 1994, Helen Demidenko released ‘The Hand that signed the paper’ about her experience growing up a Ukrainian Australian to widespread critical acclaim, before being unmasked as not quite the authentic ethnic spokesperson she claimed to be.
Hinting at both of these startling events and exploring Cold War fears of Russian spies and 'Reds under every Bed', this is a beautifully comic and thoroughly entertaining new play, reflecting on the state of multiculturalism in Australia.
An authorÂ’s emotional autobiographical novel of her childhood attempts to reconcile her Australian reality with her parentsÂ’ Central European heritage and becomes a literary sensation. But where does fact end and fiction begin?
Noëlle Janaczewska is a multi-award winning Sydney-based writer whose plays, radio scripts and libretti have been performed and broadcast throughout Australia and overseas. Her extensive writing for the stage includes: Connie and Kevin and the Secret Life of Groceries; The Butcher's Wife, Songket and The History of Water.
Director: Chris Bendall
Designer: Kellee Frith
Original Music & Sound Design: Kelly Ryall
Lighting Design: Nick Merrylees
Video Design & Producer: Kirrilly Brentnall
With: Carolyn Bock & Toby Newton
Booking for this event is: Recommended
Address
45 Flinders Lane
Melbourne
Melways Reference: 43 K8
Contact
Booking phone: 03 9639 0096
Contact phone: 03 9326 7947
Contact email: mail@theatreatrisk.com
Booking website: http://www.theatreatrisk.com
Company website: http://www.theatreatrisk.com
(Tues – Sat 8pm, Sun 5pm)
Preview: Thurs 4th May
Forum: Wednesday 10th May with Director & Writer
Tix: $27 adults / $22 seniors & MEAA / $18 students, under 25 & unwaged
Preview & Tight Tuesday (9th May): $15
Fortyfivedownstairs
MRS PETROV'S SHOE
Hinting at the Petrov Affair and exploring Cold War fears of 'Reds under every Bed', this is a beautifully comic and thoroughly entertaining new play by AWGIE award winning Sydney playwright. “I took the map to my bedroom, spread it on the counterpane and tried to pinpoint the suburb of Exile where so many of my parent’s friends resided… I couldn’t find Exile on the map. But I knew it was there, bone-tired and blistered, big-drinking, full of Slavic syllables, terrible hardships and fierce debate.” Mrs Petrov’s Shoe
On the afternoon of 19 April, 1954 Evdokia Petrov, wife of a recently defected Soviet spy was dragged, weeping and one foot bare, across the tarmac at Sydney’s Mascot Airport to be sent back to the USSR. Forty years later in 1994, Helen Demidenko released ‘The Hand that signed the paper’ about her experience growing up a Ukrainian Australian to widespread critical acclaim, before being unmasked as not quite the authentic ethnic spokesperson she claimed to be.
Hinting at both of these startling events and exploring Cold War fears of Russian spies and 'Reds under every Bed', this is a beautifully comic and thoroughly entertaining new play, reflecting on the state of multiculturalism in Australia.
An authorÂ’s emotional autobiographical novel of her childhood attempts to reconcile her Australian reality with her parentsÂ’ Central European heritage and becomes a literary sensation. But where does fact end and fiction begin?
Noëlle Janaczewska is a multi-award winning Sydney-based writer whose plays, radio scripts and libretti have been performed and broadcast throughout Australia and overseas. Her extensive writing for the stage includes: Connie and Kevin and the Secret Life of Groceries; The Butcher's Wife, Songket and The History of Water.
Director: Chris Bendall
Designer: Kellee Frith
Original Music & Sound Design: Kelly Ryall
Lighting Design: Nick Merrylees
Video Design & Producer: Kirrilly Brentnall
With: Carolyn Bock & Toby Newton
Booking for this event is: Recommended
Address
45 Flinders Lane
Melbourne
Melways Reference: 43 K8
Contact
Booking phone: 03 9639 0096
Contact phone: 03 9326 7947
Contact email: mail@theatreatrisk.com
Booking website: http://www.theatreatrisk.com
Company website: http://www.theatreatrisk.com
Bookings
This production has concluded. Contact details are not available for past events.