Overview

An unpredictable portrait of a contemporary Australian woman at three ages. On the cusp of her birthday, Angela goes on a real and imagined journey through time: up the garden path of her childhood; into the kitchen with her lover; and onto a train that travels into the Simpson Desert. Here the possibility and inevitability of change is recognised, and Angela realises and celebrates her life. This evocative and innovative play may be read as a modern fairytale, exploring the linear and cyclical nature of a woman's life.

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'Surreal, evocative and absorbingly nonlinear. Kemp's writing is eloquent and strong [...] Comic, impulsive, yearning and worldly, while moving easily from neurotic comedy to a kind of sobering grief, Kemp's fluid direction and writing allow us to glimpse the absorbing interior of a complex state of being.' Sydney Morning Herald 'Thoughtful, piquant and evocative. It's a small and beautiful stage poem for the new millenium. Simultaneously literary, philosophical, visual and filmic [...] Still Angela is an intriguing and ennobling theatrical experience.' Brisbane Courier Mail

Author Information

JENNY KEMP is the Artistic Director of Black Sequin Productions. Over the last three decades she has created a distinctive body of work with BSP, including Madeleine, Kitten , Still Angela, The Black Sequin Dress, and Call of the Wild. She has been the recipient of an Australia Council Theatre Fellowship, the Kenneth Myer Medallion for Performing Arts and a Green Room Award for her collaborative work in dance. Kemp has been an honorary research associate at Monash University and has lectured in directing and writing for many years at the Victorian College of the Arts. She also regularly gives writing workshops throughout Australia. She is also an award-winning director with a Best Production Green Room Award for Top Girls at MTC.

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