In State Opera’s performance of Christina’s World, lead character Christina, in middle age, is obsessed by a desire to return to the house of her youth and the imagination she created there – a kind of second Eden of lost childhood and the Pastoral Dream.

She succeeds in conjuring her young self, a hesitant and idealistic dream figure who gradually takes on the characteristics of a ‘real’ Christina – a contradictory, perverse, tragi-comic adolescent with a fierce egocentric life of her own.

But the house is peopled by malignant ghosts and terrible memories. In the end we are left with an enigma.

Was there ever such a house? Was there a lover, a father, a mad uncle, a drowned child – or were they all nothing more than figments of the young Christina’s distorted imagination?

Was there ever such a place as Christina’s World?

You better purchase a ticket to find out.

Christina’s World is running on 2 & 3 August at State Opera Studio in Netley. For more information, visit State Opera’s website.