Given the choice, would you save your family and yourself from persecution or condemn others to certain death?

BLONDE POISON is a remarkable one-woman play about beauty, treachery and the high price of survival, starring Best Actress Nominee at the 2015 Sydney Theatre Awards, Belinda Giblin. Back by popular demand for a strictly limited season, see one of Australia’s leading actresses like you’ve never seen her before at the Studio theatre, Sydney Opera House from 28 April. Tickets are on sale from 22 February.            

What is the price of survival? Stella Goldschlag was living illegally in war torn Berlin when she was betrayed and tortured. When offered the chance of saving herself and her parents from the death camps, she agreed to be a “greifer” or catcher for the Gestapo and inform on other Jews in hiding. She was extraordinarily successful in this and is “credited” with finding and capturing 3000 Jews. She continued working for the Gestapo even after her parents had been sent to their death. What would you have done to survive?

The vast dimensions of Stella’s character range from tortured victim to cruel killer, from loving daughter and mother to betrayer of friends, from gentle lover to depraved promiscuity. She was given the name ‘Blonde Poison’ by the Gestapo who revelled in her treachery. Decades after the war Stella agrees to be interviewed by a childhood friend, now a respected journalist -her last chance at redemption. Can she ever be released from her past?

Critically acclaimed as a “90-minute tour-de-force” the Australian premiere of Blonde Poison enjoyed a sold-out season at The Old Fitz Theatre last year and garnered Belinda Giblin a Sydney Theatre Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role in an Independent Production.

https://sydneyartsguide.com.au/blonde-poison-at-the-old-fitz/

DATES
28 April – 12 May, Tue – Sat 7pm, Wed/Sat 1:30pm at the Studio Theatre, Sydney Opera House

For more about Blonde Poison, visit http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com
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