Name: UNDERGROUND
SKU: ASC-2114
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UNDERGROUND

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A play inspired by Nancy Wake aka The White Mouse.

War hero, survivor, Nancy Wake doesn't want another layer of gold paint added to the legend of The White Mouse. Was the price she paid for survival too high?

In a hallucinatory review of her life, Nancy's story unfolds with humour and pathos. The Second World War changed her for ever but this time no one is messing with her story and she tells it with trademark roguishness, with a little help from her comrades in France, including a mysterious German spy and cabaret singer who sings Marlene Dietrich's most beloved songs.

Cultural Consultant by Mahana Maihi-Taniora of Mana Māori Melbourne

Form/Style: drama
Length in minutes: 85
Cast: 5 total
Roles: 3 female identifying, 2 male identifying
Themes: young people, history
Cast age groups: 18+
Audience age: teen, young adult, adult
Publisher: Australian Script Centre

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Old Nancy

Female | 60+ | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 16

EXTRACT: Perhaps if theyâ€™d seen Vienna, seen what I saw, Jewish girls biting the hands of German thugs as they ripped jewels from their ears, and groped their bodies. Old people ...teeth kicked in bleeding and crying on the streets. The windows... that night ...I still hear the glass shattering... splinters and shards everywhere. They threw pianos, sewing machines ...typewriters onto the streets...what sort of/

FILMED EXCERPT OF UNDERGROUND BY CHRISTINE CROYDEN

Written by Christine Croyden Directed by Sara Grenfell Cast: Margot Knight, Emma Annand, Ezra Bix, Billy Sloane & Tori McCann

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ARTS REVIEW, DAVID COLLINS, MARCH 2019

"...an engrossing text by playwright Christine Croyden. With a little more imagination in its realisation, the show would sing."

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