The Black Sequin Dress


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, 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.