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28/06/2025

We love this signal box!! ❤️

Proudly standing on Musgrave Road in Red Hill, this painted signal box honours Australia’s first female surgeon and fearless hero of A Girl’s Guide to World War, Dr Lilian Cooper.

In 2015, Christina Bakker set out to honour an inspiring female Brisbane historical figure by painting their portrait as part of the Artforce Brisbane project. She chose Dr Lilian Cooper, and her work, ‘Now Is The Time’, celebrates Dr Cooper’s achievements while at the same time advocating for marriage equality. (Note that the ‘o’ in ‘now’ is shown as a wedding ring. 💍)

It makes us so happy to see Dr Cooper’s accomplishments and legacy recognised in such a wonderful way. 🙌

07/06/2025

There were lots of people at the Maleny Playhouse to listen to mother and daughter Margery and Katy Forde’s talk this afternoon. 🥰

Margery spoke about the process of dramatising the experiences of Brisbane children and young people during WWII to create her beloved work Snapshots From Home - most recently performed at the Maleny Playhouse.

Katy shared stories of the process of writing her hit musical A Girl’s Guide to World War - from the original inspiration to researching the women to writing the songs to touring the show.

The audience were enthralled and very privileged to get a glimpse into the world behind the scenes of these incredible shows.

Thank you to Barbara for facilitating the discussion and thank you to the Maleny Players for inviting these two wonderful women to share their process and stories.

03/06/2025

Margery and Katy are getting ready for their talk at the Maleny Playhouse this Saturday afternoon.

The talk will have lots of fun anecdotes from behind the scenes of their award-winning shows Snapshots From Home and A Girl’s Guide to World War.

This is your opportunity to meet the playwrights and get some insights on how they go about writing their shows and why they do it.

Saturday 7th June
Maleny Playhouse
3.00 pm - 5.00 pm

You can book your spot through this link:

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1392446

02/06/2025

Les Mis!! 😃

Katy, Aleathea and Margery with Katy’s cousins Leisha, Maggie and Micah ready to enjoy the songs of Les Miserables at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Saturday.

01/06/2025

Katy and Margery Forde will be talking about their award-winning works at the Maleny Playhouse next weekend.

Maleny Players says:

“Join two of Maleny’s talented and award-winning playwrights, Margery Forde and her daughter Katy Forde, for a chat about the intense research involved in their writing and their thoughts on the importance of seeing our own Australian stories reflected back to us through theatre.

Katy will talk about creating the book and lyrics for A Girl’s Guide to World War (Matilda Award Best New Australian Work) which celebrates the lives of astonishing Australian women in World War 1. And Margery will talk about her play, Snapshots from Home (AWGIE Award), which is the Maleny Players most recent production.”

Saturday 7th June
3.00 PM -5.00 PM
Maleny Playhouse
Tickets: $15 at Maleny Visitor Information Centre or via this link: www.trybooking.com/DBFVQ

Flyer by Maleny Players.

20/05/2025

Thank you to Luke Monsour for these amazing photos of our cast, band and crew taken during our recent tour of regional Queensland. 🙏

06/05/2025

Did you know that as well as playing the inimitable Mrs Harley in A Girl’s Guide to World War, Margery Forde is also an award-winning playwright in real life? 🤔☺️

Margery and her beloved late husband Michael Forde wrote many plays together, and Margery also has impressive playwriting credits in her own right.

Two of Margery’s solo works are being performed this month in different theatres.

Margery’s X-Stacy has been honoured by being chosen as one of 10 iconic works to be read as part of La Boite Theatre’s La Boite Encores play reading series to celebrates its 100th year.

La Boite says:
“One of Australia’s seminal plays for young people studied in high schools and universities across the nation, X-Stacy is a raw and gripping exploration of teenage life, love, and loss.”

This reading will be on the 12th of May. You can see more information here:

https://laboite.com.au/shows/x-stacy

The other play that is being performed right now in Margery’s home town by the Maleny players at the Maleny Playhouse is Snapshots From Home

Based on the WWII memories of 24 men and women from Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, Snapshots From Home was created through an oral history project conducted by the Queensland Performing Arts Trust in 1995. Margery brought over 600 pages of verbatim transcripts to life with music and drama to tell the story of what life was like on the home-front for these Queenslanders.

Snapshots From Home’s final shows are this weekend Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th of May.

Click this link for more information:
https://www.trybooking.com/CZIHN

03/05/2025

We were so thrilled to have the wonderful Frances Whiting come to see A Girl’s Guide to World War at QPAC … and even more thrilled that she loved it so much! 🥰

Thank you for you for these lovely words, Frances! 🙏❤️🙏

25/04/2025

Today as we honour all those we have lost, we also remember the often forgotten stories of bravery, determination and humanity during wartime.

These are the stores we celebrate in A Girl’s Guide to World War. Lest we forget. ❤️

21/04/2025

The interest and support we have received for our little show is truly incredible. 🙌

We are ‘comPLETEly obsessed’ 😉 with all of the amazing women of A Girl’s Guide to World War and are so happy to find out that so many of you have fallen in love with them, too!

One of the things we have loved most about touring is hearing from lovely people who have just discovered the show and love it. ❤️

Read to the end to hear the amazing story of one of our very special recent audience members…

Marion from Ballarat in Victoria first contacted us in January. Marion had heard Katy and Vix talking about the show on ABC’s Australia All Over program and wanted to know the QPAC dates so she could book flights to come and see it.

Then, months later, during our run at QPAC we were delighted (and then astonished) to receive this message:

“What a wonderful night of theatre we experienced on Thursday❣️Every emotion was touched throughout, there was not a weak link and we haven’t stopped thinking and talking about your show since. I was so regretful that I couldn’t see it a second time! Congratulations to every single person involved.”

Then Marion went on to say this, and we were left completely speechless (and may have even shed a little tear)…

“I had a light-bulb moment as Vix revealed what happened to the women after the war. I realised that I had visited Mrs Harley’s grave in Thessaloniki in 2018, along with 20 Aussies and a couple of Belgian friends during an extended ‘battlefield’ trip to the Western Front, Gallipoli, Malta and Greece. It is kept in perfect order by the staff of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. She was obviously revered.“

Marion sent a photo of her paying her respects to Mrs Harley’s grave which, as you can see, does indeed ‘tower over all the others’. 🥰

Thank you so much for your interest, support and appreciation of the show Marion and for sharing a very special moment with us. It truly means a lot.
🙏❤️🙏

20/04/2025

Q: What do you get if you cross M*A*S*H with Wicked?

If you ask 4ZZZ reviewer Mark Chandler, the answer is . . . smash-hit musical A Girl’s Guide to World War! 😃

Mark starts his review by saying:

“A Girl’s Guide to World War, by Katy Forde and Aleathea Monsour, is a cross between an episode of M*AS*H* and the musical Wicked. As Wicked is a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, GG2WW presents us with the story behind the M*A*S*H unit concept and a snapshot into the fascinating life of its creator, Dr Agnes Bennett. And while it’s musical, it’s not a musical.”

Read the full review here:

https://www.4zzzfm.org.au/reviews/arts/girl%E2%80%99s-guide-world-war

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