Event | The American Chestnut | |||||||
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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 |
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Description Source | Brochure | |||||||
Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | |||||||
Secondary Genre |
Satire
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Subjects |
Death
Diseases Femininity Morality |
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Text Nationality | United States of America | |||||||
Production Nationality | Australia | |||||||
Event Status | Completed | |||||||
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Event Identifier | 100841 | |||||||
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