Possessions – in a limited run at the King Street Theatre

It’s Thelma and Louise meets Dangerous Liaisons!

If you were a rich noblewoman in the Seventeenth Century, then there was nothing you couldn’t do – so long as your husband permitted it. The Mancini sisters came from one of the richest, best-connected, most celebrated families in Europe. If you were a woman, this meant your relatives would choose you a husband of noble birth and political power. But what if it didn’t work out? And what if your husband wanted to keep you with him always – or wanted you dead? Hortense and Marie were not the kind to take it lying down, even if escaping their marriages meant scandalous and perilous journeys from convent to coach house to court, as all of Europe’s nobility watched to see what they would get up to next.

Carrie Ann Quinn and Jane Bergeron as Marie and Hortense

Constructed from Marie and Hortense’s memoirs, published by them in their lifetimes to “set the record straight”, Possessions is a funny, moving adventure story written and performed by Jane Bergeron and Carrie Ann Quinn. This is the original ‘girl road story’ which weaves together historical narrative with extracts from the memoirs and letters of these remarkable women, along with contemporary stories and songs.

The result – a powerful and provocative theatrical experience – has huge resonance for women in the 21st century.

https://www.escapeartiststheatreco.com

What: Possessions

When: 7.30 pm 27-29 March (preview Thursday 27), 3-5 April

Where: King Street Theatre (entrance corner of Bray St) Newtown

Tickets: $25/$15

via www.kingstreettheatre.com.au or at the door