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THE SHOEHORN SONATA by John Misto

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The Shoe-horn Sonata
by John Misto

Fresh from a triumphant 2009 season where hundreds of Sydney students enjoyed this acclaimed production, the Shoehorn Sonata returns to Newtown Theatre with evening performances for a whole new audience to enjoy!

John Misto’s award-winning play tells the powerful and compelling story of an Australian Army nurse, Bridie Cartwright, (played by Janine Penfold) who befriends an English schoolgirl Sheila Richards (Lisa Peers) in a Japanese POW camp in Borneo during World War II.

It is about their friendship, survival and eventual triumph over incredible odds.

We meet them as they are brought together by a film-maker chronicling their stories of capture by the Japanese army in 1942, whilst trying to escape Singapore.

Their reunion is filled with laughter and tears and the discovery of a shoe-horn which holds a dark secret that has kept the pair apart for half a century.

Using footage from the National Film and Sound Archive as well as his own past movie productions, director Stephen Wallace has created a visually evocative and sensitive realisation of this iconic Australian play – which features on the HSC English syllabus.

THE SHOEHORN SONATA by John Misto
Wed March 3rd at 8pm opening night; then
Saturdays March 6, 13 and 20 at 8pm; and
Wed March 24 to Sat March 27 at 8pm; plus
Sat 27 March 2pm and Sun 28 March 5pm matinees

Newtown Theatre Cnr King & Bray Streets - near St Peters & Newtown train stations.
Tickets $25 and $20 concession. School group bookings & special performances available. Bookings: 8507 3034 or online www.newtowntheatre.com.au

MEDIA: for more information, interviews, images, or other details, contact Geoff Sirmai, Watchdog Communications (02) 9389 3907, 0412 669 272 or geoff@watchdog.com.au
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