A
Thousand Murdered Girls
Written and Produced by Darren Guy
Directed by Mikyla Jane Durkan
4th - 6th July at 8pm
The Unity Theatre, Hope Place
‘Oh my word, I was on the edge of my seat
from the very beginning until the end’ Tracey,
Wavertree
‘I would come and see this again’
Ed, Childwall
‘I cried all the way through’
Maria, Mossley Hill
‘I’ve never been to see a play before,
but that was so amazing’ Michelle,
Old Swan
Just some of the comments recorded at the end of the plays’ first
showing at the Unity in June 2012.
“a beautifully produced play”
Nerve Magazine
“a truly moving and educational performance”
Seba Rashii Culture Zine
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’.
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.
An all Liverpool cast from the drama group 'Insurrection' perform 'A Thousand
Murdered Girls'. Written and produced by Darren Guy and based on the last
testaments of resistance fighters in the 1940s and the hidden diaries
of woman who where imprisoned in camps on the Greek island of Trikeri
between 1949 and 1953 the play uses drama, film, music and poetry to tell
the tales of the women.
5,000 woman and hundreds of children had been imprisoned in the camp in
1949, when Nazi collaborators took over the running of Greece after the
Second World War. They began arresting anyone who had opposed the Third
Reich. It was 30 years later that the women returned to find their diaries still intact,
buried aside a tree on the grounds where the camp use to be.
The diaries give testament to both the harrowing and tortuous experience
of the women but also the resilience. warmth and beauty that comes through
such times. A Thousand Murdered Girls tells the stories of women who had
resisted the German occupation and then resisted home grown fascism, during
a turbulent 40 years of modern Greek history, one that ended with the
fall of the generals in 1974. The play uses authentic materials based
on the work of Greek writers and poets Eleni Fourtounia and Rita Boumi
Pappas and is a collaboration between Liverpool based writer and poet
Darren Guy and a number of Greek researchers and translators Darren met
whilst living in Greece in the 1990s.
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