Girls Do Gertrude!

Girls Do Gertrude! A double-bill of plays by the 20th Century’s most famous lesbian. MIDSUMMA FESTIVAL 2012 Premier Event ________________________________________ Presented by BLACK APPLE THEATRE Forty of Melbourne’s most talented women come together to celebrate the work of visionary writer Gertrude Stein in Girls Do Gertrude! - a double bill-of plays by the 20th Century’s most famous lesbian. "You look ridiculous if you dance, you look ridiculous if you don't dance; so you might as well dance" – so says rebel and writer Gertrude Stein whose plays Ladies’ Voices and Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters will be setting the stage alight this January as a Premier Event of MIDSUMMA 2012. Directors Yvonne Virsik (I Love You Bro, Morning Becomes Electra, Spring Awakening) and Cheyney Caddy (Songs, Two Weeks with the Queen) will team up to lead a colossal company of performers, designers and musicians who, over seven days and seven nights, will race against the clock to bring you this all-female, all-fabulous spectacular. And, on Day Eight, against the Victorian splendour of Northcote Town Hall, the curtain will rise on a brand-new production of Amazonian proportions: Melbourne – you’ve never seen anything like it before. "Black Apple Theatre… reminds us why well told stories can reach our hearts and change how we see the world" - AussieTheatre.com.au, 2011 Black Apple Theatre "showed that theatre does not have to be risky or shocking to be relevant, but with heart and humanity, the simplest of stories can reach the deepest." – www.actorama.com, 2011