Women With Swords

Press: Geoff Allen and Galatea Theatre present:
WOMEN WITH SWORDS
A western with swords!
FRENCH ITALIAN BORDER– 1642

One last hidden valley remains untouched by the Thirty Years war.
All the men have been killed.
Only women are left.
An army is coming.
Six desperate women will fight to find the buried treasure of
Count Carignano before that army reaches them.
Only one will see the dawn.
All are armed, all dangerous, all Women with Swords.

BACKGROUND: While directing the AUSS 2014 production of Pericles, Geoff Allen heard an actress watching a sword fight lament, ‘I wish we could do that.’ He then wrote his most exotic and edgy play – Women with Swords.

“I wanted to do a play very different to my other work: Set in a time when superstition, religion and war pushed ordinary women to the edge.”
I chose the Thirty Years war and based it on two iconic sixties films –
‘The Last Valley’ and ‘The Good the Bad and the Ugly.’

Six women to love or hate – but will your favourite be the one that survives to dawn?

STARRING: ERICA KROGER.NATASHA ROSS.KATHERINE HAIR.KAT GLASS.
GERRY JAYNES.EMILY MCKENZIE & DANIEL FERNANDEZ.
Fight Choreography: Dave Arrow
Written and Directed by Geoff Allen for Galatea Theatre
Producer: Katherine Hair
The Pumphouse Amphitheatre April 13 – 23rd=
Bookings: wwwpumphouse.co.nz 09 489 8360

(From The author of ‘Sister Anzac.’ At Q theatre in 2016.)

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