2026
The Shoe-Horn Sonata
by
John Misto
directed by
Jane Binstead
A wonderful Australian play, set in 1995, when two women who were Japanese prisoners of war in camps are reunited in a Melbourne hotel room.
Now a television documentary forces them to relive the past, contact the present and question the future. Woven into their fifty years of separation are a shoe-horn and the threads of loyalty and love which form their uncommon bond.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Jane Binstead
Director, Publicity
Venus Abala
Lighting Design and Operator
Sandra Hogan
Photographer
Liesa Silver
Stage Manager, Set Design, Props
Loretta Donnelly
Props
Ken Dutt
Stage Manager
Liz Morris
Casting Committee Liaison
Peter van Brucken
Sound Design and Operator
Isabelle Stone
Publicity
CAST
Eve Wheeler
Bridie
Portia Taggart
Voice of Young Bridie
Mary Woodall
Sheila
Colleen Lock, Ruth Gabriel, Anne Darch, Ken Dutt
Recorded Choir
Michael McNish
Interviewer
Luke Hackett
Voice of Japanese Soldier
Jade Davis
Voice of Young Sheila