The Colony Comes a Cropper

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Event The Colony Comes a Cropper
Venue Salisbury Playhouse (1976-), Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
First Date 19 September 1990
Last Date 6 October 1990
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere Yes
Part of a Tour Yes
Description This production comprises two separate one-act plays: The Colony by Marivaux and Comes a Cropper by Robyn Archer.

"In Marivaux's eighteenth-century comedy the female members of a shipwrecked colony, isolated from the constraints of external legislations, declare their right to participate in the drawing up of a new constitution. But the newly-formed union of women is swiftly subverted by male subterfuge, which cunningly drives the wedge of social class between the bourgeois and the aristocracy. Monstrous Regiment's production of The Colony, translated by Gillian Hanna and directed by Nona Shepphard, gives a straightforward account of this early feminist tract with a sting in its tail, and appends a specially commissioned update by Australian cabaret artist Robyn Archer. Over 200 years later her characters are still stranded, but this robust, more physical sequel ends optimistically as the previously antagonistic women row, in unison, towards an emancipated future." (The Independent)
Description Source Reviewer's Opinion
Primary Genre Music Theatre
Secondary Genre Comedy
Subjects Feminism
Gender roles
Women
Women's Issues
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Lindsay Cooper Composer
Jenny Carey Designer
Nona Shepphard Director
Peter Higton Lighting Designer
Angela Clerkin Performer
Nora Connolly Performer
Stephen Crane Performer
Andrew Frame Performer
Paul Kiernan Performer
Carlene Reed Performer
Lynne Verrall Performer
Robyn Archer Playwright
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux Playwright
Gillian Hanna Translator
Text Nationality Australia
France
Production Nationality England
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Press Release Press releases, Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company Archive, Victoria and Albert Museum
Brochure PROMPT Collection, National Library of Australia
Newspaper Press clippings, Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company Archive, Victoria and Albert Museum
Programme Programmes, Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company Archive, Victoria and Albert Museum
Event Identifier 132077