The Black Sequin Dress
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| The Black Sequin Dress | |
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 Cover of published edition | |
| Written by | Jenny Kemp |
| Date premiered | March 5, 1996 |
| Place premiered | Adelaide Festival |
| Original language | English |
| Setting | A nightclub |
The Black Sequin Dress is a play by Australian playwright Jenny Kemp.
Plot
[edit]A woman leaves her children for an evening to go to a nightclub. In a moment of indecision she glances back, slips and falls. Money, desire and dreams converge as she enters a surreal world of haunting colours and lyrical distortions.
Premiere and cast
[edit]The Black Sequin Dress was commissioned for the 1996 Adelaide Festival,[1] where the Playbox Theatre Centre premiered it on 5 March 1996 with the following cast:
- Woman 1: Margaret Mills
- Woman 2: Helen Herbertson
- Woman 3: Natasha Herbert
- Woman 4: Mary Sitarenos
- Man: Ian Scott
- Waiter: Greg Stone
- Girl's voice: Romanie Harper
- Director, Jenny Kemp
- Composer, Elizabeth Drake
- Designer, Jacqueline Everitt
- Lighting designer, Ben Cobham
Publication
[edit]The play was published by Currency Press in 1996.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Hamilton, Margaret (2011). Transfigured Stages: Major Practitioners and Theatre Aesthetics in Australia. Australian Playwrights series. Amsterdam: Rodopi. p. 94. ISBN 978-90-420-3356-6.
- ^ Kemp, Jenny (1996). The Black Sequin Dress. Sydney: Currency Press. ISBN 978-0-86819-466-0.
External links
[edit]- The Black Sequin Dress at the AusStage database
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