Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour [Melbourne]

Event Information

Date/Time

Thursday October 20, 2016
8:00 PM

Location

State Theatre, Arts Centre
100 St Kilda Road
Southbank, Victoria 3006
Australia

Auslan Interpreter/s

Tyson Boal & Therese Lewis

Language/ Cultural Consultant

Ramas McRae

Tickets

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 (As part of the Melbourne Festival)

Six Catholic schoolgirls travel to Edinburgh for a choral competition, but these sopranos are more interested in sex, smokes and Sambuca.

This gleefully uplifting tribute to youth on the cusp of adulthood is a musical play about losing your virginity and finding yourself. Stunning six-part classical harmonies from the Age of Enlightenment give way to ELO and the whole is punctuated with the dirtiest trash-talk a sixteen-year-old Scot could summon (and then some). Heartbreakingly bittersweet, searingly funny, terribly rude and possessed by an infectious spirit of play, this theatrical romp is a joyride you won’t soon forget.

Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour marks the first visit to Melbourne for the world-renowned National Theatre of Scotland. Apologies if the girls make a mess.

Adapted by LEE HALL from the novel The Sopranos by ALAN WARNER

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