Uncle Gus: a fictional Biography of Sue Lyon

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Event Uncle Gus: a fictional Biography of Sue Lyon
Venue La Mama, Carlton, VIC
First Date 4 March 2015
Last Date 15 March 2015
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Los Angeles: 1983 Sue Lyon, once lolita of Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film, has grown up. Nabokov'™s Lolita has inspired mountains of dross. Putting aside the films of Kubrick and Lyne, both of which are good, the book has been turned into an opera, a musical, a line of hand guns, all sorts of fetishware, a one-man show at London'™s National Theatre and a truly awful novel written from Lolita'™s not-so-innocent vantage. Add to this the many sad attempts to critique, exploit, invert or otherwise rearrange the basic theme of nymphet
Description Source Website
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Jason Cavanagh Actor Edward E. Werathers
Tamara Donnellan Actor Sue Lyon
Catherine Glavicic Actor Charlotte
Allen Laverty Actor Cotton
Vuyo Loko Actor Rowland Harrison
Simon Coleman Director
Adrian Hollay Sound Designer
Meg Richardson Stage Manager
Dorine Blaise Visual Artist
Suzanne Heywood Voice Coach
Telford Mills Writer
Text Nationality New Zealand
Production Nationality Australia
New Zealand
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Programme Jamie Henson Collection
Review https://dailyreview.com.au/uncle-gus-theatre-review-la-mama-melbourne/
Event Identifier 169769
Dataset AusStage