Tag Archives: Darren Guy

A Thousand Murdered Girls, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Maria Hutchison, Rachael Boothroyd, Katy Brown, Kitty Spathia, Valerio Lusito, Arancha Herreruelo-Alonso, Emma Segar, Keelin Sweeney, Alun Parry, Alan Bower, Adam Byrne, Tony Davies, Louise Garcia, Gillian Peterson-Fox.

Every so often the sound of three gunshots echoes around the Unity Theatre. The effect it has on the audience is one that is just as chilling on the soul as the realisation that what the writer Darren Guy and Director Mikyla Jane Durkan have put together is so rooted in Greek history that as an audience member it’s possible to feel shame for the lack of knowledge you have as the true story of the many women arrested and tortured in Greece after World War Two for the crime of fighting Fascism and Nazism.

A Thousand Murdered Girls, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(451 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

The Memories Of A Thousand Murdered Girls Returns To The Unity Theatre This July.

The memories of A Thousand Murdered Girls returns to the Unity Theatre in Liverpool after successful performances in 2012 between Thursday 4th and Saturday 6th July.

Did you know that thousands of anti-fascists who had fought long and hard against German Nazis had been imprisoned for years after the Second World War in concentration camps? Their crime, ‘fighting fascism’.

A Thousand Murdered Girls is based on the diaries and last testaments of Greek Women Resistance Fighters, from 1944 through to 1949. From fighting fascists in the towns and villages of Greece through to island concentration camps. This beautiful and harrowing play challenges perceptions of the Second World War and British involvement in Greece.

The Memories Of A Thousand Murdered Girls Returns To The Unity Theatre This July. full post

(402 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)