Performance Dates
23 Jan 2002 – 2 Feb 2002January 2002
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Details
- Playwright
- Based on Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll
- Director
- Renata Earnshaw
AddressBlue Room Theatre Studio
Consciousness, weighed down, swooning, slips towards a languor comparable to sleep¡Âit is in the presence of the Other that the world is revealed as a world of Desire¡±
Jean-Paul Sartre
LAVA COLLECTIVE Presents
DESIRE
PROVOCATIVE, NOTORIOUS, MORALLY REPELLENT,
REVOLTING, LEWD, SALACIOUS
Notorious, lewd, morally repellent and provocative these were some of the words used to describe the film Baby Doll on its release in 1956. Written by Tennessee Williams and set in the steamy American South, the ripe but immature Baby Doll is traded by her late father to marry the dull-witted, slovenly, middle-aged Archie Meighan. In return, Archie has promised not to consummate the marriage until she turns twenty¡Âoh, and to keep her in comfort.
Two days before her twentieth birthday Archie's salacious designs on his Baby are threatened by the imminent failure of his business after his new Sicilian neighbour, Silva Vacarro, opens a successful competing factory in town.
Archie¡¯s solution, arson, exacerbates the late summer heat provoking the handsome Silva to his own intimate form of revenge.
Tennessee Williams wrote, ¡°All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a probable loser of what you most want¡±.
It is what drives the characters to place themselves in vulnerable positions, because of desire, that provoked me to adapt Baby Doll. The themes are universal. We all desire and sacrifice in some way or another every day. Renata Earnshaw (Director/Producer)
DESIRE adapted for the stage and directed by Renate Earnshaw for the Perth Fringe Festival transfers the action to Australia's tropical north. Featuring Claudia Witts (in her final production in Perth before entering the Victorian College of Arts), Dean McAskil (Vagabond Theatre's 1984), and Warren Herbu (BSX Theatre's Spurboard).
"What would you stake for the object of your desire? Is desire the manifestation of our longing to belong? How long will you wait?"
DESIRE commences January 23rd to February 2nd @ The Blueroom Theatre Studio. Performances start at 9.30pm. Bookings and information: 9227 7005 Tickets $15/12
Jean-Paul Sartre
LAVA COLLECTIVE Presents
DESIRE
PROVOCATIVE, NOTORIOUS, MORALLY REPELLENT,
REVOLTING, LEWD, SALACIOUS
Notorious, lewd, morally repellent and provocative these were some of the words used to describe the film Baby Doll on its release in 1956. Written by Tennessee Williams and set in the steamy American South, the ripe but immature Baby Doll is traded by her late father to marry the dull-witted, slovenly, middle-aged Archie Meighan. In return, Archie has promised not to consummate the marriage until she turns twenty¡Âoh, and to keep her in comfort.
Two days before her twentieth birthday Archie's salacious designs on his Baby are threatened by the imminent failure of his business after his new Sicilian neighbour, Silva Vacarro, opens a successful competing factory in town.
Archie¡¯s solution, arson, exacerbates the late summer heat provoking the handsome Silva to his own intimate form of revenge.
Tennessee Williams wrote, ¡°All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a probable loser of what you most want¡±.
It is what drives the characters to place themselves in vulnerable positions, because of desire, that provoked me to adapt Baby Doll. The themes are universal. We all desire and sacrifice in some way or another every day. Renata Earnshaw (Director/Producer)
DESIRE adapted for the stage and directed by Renate Earnshaw for the Perth Fringe Festival transfers the action to Australia's tropical north. Featuring Claudia Witts (in her final production in Perth before entering the Victorian College of Arts), Dean McAskil (Vagabond Theatre's 1984), and Warren Herbu (BSX Theatre's Spurboard).
"What would you stake for the object of your desire? Is desire the manifestation of our longing to belong? How long will you wait?"
DESIRE commences January 23rd to February 2nd @ The Blueroom Theatre Studio. Performances start at 9.30pm. Bookings and information: 9227 7005 Tickets $15/12
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