March 17, 2022 – April 10, 2022
Triplet sisters are left in the forest by their woodcutter father. From this fairytale beginning, three resolutions are made – one sister will walk one way, one the other, and the third will stay right where she is. Twenty years later, having circumnavigated the globe, and fought Vikings, and crossed oceans, and tamed wilds, and achieved greatness, the three meet again, as women. What they learn on their separate journeys will change everything, and at the same time nothing, in this moving and irresistibly charming modern-day fairytale.
Winner, 2010 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award
Finalist, 2020 Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland
Finalist, 2015 CHASS Australia Prize for Distinctive Work
Somewhere between hilarious and human’
Luca (age 9), Big Kids Magazine
‘Because this tale is broad and universal, just like a life (or three), and can be melded and shaped and shifted in magical ways. And what CoHo has done with Kruckemeyer’s beautiful words is capture lightning in a bottle’
Oregon Arts Watch
‘The most important thing is always the telling of the story – children demand imagination and clarity while adults deserve it. This is the secret of fables and fairy stories and it’s the standard by which theatre for children can best be judged. By that measure – and plenty of others beside… ‘This Girl Laughs’ succeeds admirably’
The West Australian
‘But a simple story told well can grab your hand and take off running, leaving you breathless with delight [and] that’s what CoHo has done’
Oregon Live