The Black Sequin Dress

The Black Sequin Dress
The Black Sequin Dress
	Cover of published edition
Written by	Jenny Kemp
Date premiered	March 5, 1996
Place premiered	Adelaide Festival
Original language	English
Setting	A 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:

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]

References[]

^ 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.
^ Kemp, Jenny (1996). The Black Sequin Dress. Sydney: Currency Press. ISBN 978-0-86819-466-0.

External links[]

The Black Sequin Dress at the AusStage database

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[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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