The American Chestnut

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Event The American Chestnut
Venue Universal Theatre, North Fitzroy, VIC
Umbrella Event Melbourne Festival 1999
First Date 19 October 1999
Opening Date 19 October 1999
Last Date 24 October 1999
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Direct from Los Angeles, controversial perfromance artist Karen Finley returns to Australia with her powerful new one-woman show.
Awarded Ms. Magazine's Woman of the Year Award in 1998 for 'continually staging a one-woman uprising...' and targeted by conservative America for her provocative live performances, Finley has been creating art on her own terms since the late seventies.
In The American Chestnut, Finley uses the blighted tree as a metaphor to examine femininity, hyper-domesticity, disease, death and moral decay. Mixing audacious blunt wit, nudity and projected imagery with an ext
Description Source Brochure
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Satire
Subjects Death
Diseases
Femininity
Morality
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Karen Finley Performer Writer
Text Nationality United States of America
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Brochure Melbourne Festival 1999 guide
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 100841