''The Black Sequin Dress'' is a play by Australian playwright
Jenny Kemp.
Plot
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
''The Black Sequin Dress'' was commissioned for the 1996
Adelaide Festival
The Adelaide Festival of Arts, also known as the Adelaide Festival, an arts festival, takes place in the South Australian capital of Adelaide in March each year. Started in 1960, it is a major celebration of the arts and a significant cultural ...
, 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
The play was published by
Currency Press
Currency Press is a leading performing arts publisher and its oldest independent publisher still active. Their list includes plays and screenplays, professional handbooks, biographies, cultural histories, critical studies and reference works.
H ...
in 1996.
References
External links
*
The Black Sequin Dress' at the
AusStage
AusStage: The Australian Live Performance Database is an online database which records information about live performances in Australia, providing records of productions from the first recorded performance in Australia (1789, by convicts) up unt ...
database
1990s Australian plays
1996 plays
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