The Black Sequin Dress Explained

The Black Sequin Dress
Setting:	A nightclub
Place:	Adelaide Festival
Orig Lang:	English

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:

• Woman 1: Margaret Mills
• Woman 2: Helen Herbertson
• Woman 3: Natasha Herbert
• Woman 4: Mary Sitarenos
• Man: Ian Scott
• Waiter: Greg Stone
• Girl's voice: Romanie Harper
• Director, Jenny Kemp
• Composer, Elizabeth Drake
• Designer, Jacqueline Everitt
• Lighting designer, Ben Cobham

Publication

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

External links

• The Black Sequin Dress at the AusStage database

Notes and References

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