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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