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Malvern Theatre Company

Daughters of Heaven

27 June 2002 – 13 July 2002

Performance Dates

27 June 2002 – 13 July 2002

June 2002

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Details

Playwright
Michelanne Forster
Director
Damian Coffey
Address29 Burke Road, East Malvern 3145
BASED ON A TRUE STORY! On June 22, 1954 in a secluded part of Victoria Park in Christchurch, New Zealand, Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker battered Pauline's mother to death. The play examines the passionate friendship between the two girls and the events leading up to the murder. Look one way and it's the story of a provincial city being turned upside down. It's the story of Christchurch in 1954, restrained and nice with implicit British attitudes suddenly confronted with evil. Look another way and "Daughters Of Heaven" is about love - the sweeping away of reason and morality in a crazy tide of two-ness.
This fascinating story was made into the film "Heavenly Creatures" in 1994.
The play has not been staged in Melbourne before!
June 27 to July 13 at 8.15 pm
Matinee: Saturday June 29 at 2.30 pm
Gala Night with supper: Saturday July 6
BOOKINGS: 9530 8586

Bookings

This production has concluded. Contact details are not available for past events.