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| The Black Sequin Dress | |
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| 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.
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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.
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:
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