The Black Sequin Dress

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Event The Black Sequin Dress
Venue Bridge Theatre, Coniston, NSW
First Date 30 April 2003
Last Date 10 May 2003
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description A woman in a black sequin dress leaves the children for the evening and goes to a nightclub. The play begins. The woman arrives at the nightclub. She walks accross the shiny floor. In a moment of indecision she glances back, and slips and falls. The waiter helps her up, walks her to a table and gets her a drink. The premise that any ordinary action has extraordinary resonances is explored. The nightclub becomes the underworld and falling synionomous with her psychic state. We watch as memory, desire, dream, fantasy and myth serve to animate the descent into the underworld and her subsequent a
Description Source Other
Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Performance
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Nicole Archer Actor
Garth Hodgson Actor
Stuart McRae Actor
Katrina Rautenberg Actor
Laura Stevens Actor
Karina Thomas Actor
Zoe Steen Director
Jenny Kemp Playwright
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Web www.dollee.com, Theatre in Illawarra website/database
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 74961