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The Black Sequin Dress
Cover of published edition
Written byJenny Kemp
Date premieredMarch 5, 1996 (1996-03-05)
Place premieredAdelaide Festival
Original languageEnglish
SettingA nightclub

The Black Sequin Dress is a play by Australian playwright Jenny Kemp.

Plot

A woman leaves her children for an evening to go to a nightclub. In a moment of indecision she glances back, slips and falls. Money, desire and dreams converge as she enters a surreal world of haunting colours and lyrical distortions.

Premiere and cast

The Black Sequin Dress was commissioned for the 1996 Adelaide Festival,[1] where the Playbox Theatre Centre premiered it on 5 March 1996 with the following cast:

Publication

The play was published by Currency Press in 1996.[2]

References

  1. ^ Hamilton, Margaret (2011). Transfigured Stages: Major Practitioners and Theatre Aesthetics in Australia. Australian Playwrights series. Amsterdam: Rodopi. p. 94. ISBN 978-90-420-3356-6.
  2. ^ Kemp, Jenny (1996). The Black Sequin Dress. Sydney: Currency Press. ISBN 978-0-86819-466-0.

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