Performance Dates
17 Oct 2001 – 30 Nov 2001October 2001
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Details
- Playwright
- Beatrix Christian
- Director
- Benedict Andrews
AddressWharf 1, Pier 4 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, Sydney
"Beatrix Christian has an imagination which is unique and bizarre, affectionate and playful." The Sun-Herald
A play about love, art and a cross-dressing neighbour called Death.
Lillian is a National Treasure, the country's greatest living female painter. Over her entire career she's painted only one model, her Muse, in a series of nudes spanning 30 years. Fleur has sat for Lillian since she was 19 years old.
Over one giddy weekend seen through FleurÂ’s florid imagination, everything changes. Life at Amaravati, an overgrown Arcadia somewhere in the Australian bush, is sent into a whirlwind. Fleur is gazing down the highway, longing for the dirty world while Lillian awaits the return of sensation. An extraordinary family reunion re-ignites lurid memories, sudden inspirations, betrayals, and sleepless nights.
LillianÂ’s ex, Gordon, arrives with his new wife Dorotéa, a handbag wielding carpark owner with a social conscience and painful memories of Amaravati. Ford, LillianÂ’s son, brings Vivika, his new wife, to meet the family. SheÂ’s an MTV Botticelli with eyes like broken glass and poetic ambitions.
Told with great humour and breathtaking twists and turns, this brilliant new play flashes form portrait to landscape. As the characters try to negotiate the blurry lines between fact and fiction, they rediscover passion, hunger and sing songs about food, death and celestial roulette.
"She's a dreadful woman. An artist. They show an abnormal interest till you haven't got a shred of decency left and then they drop you in a hole. Undertakers by any other name." Beatrix Christian, playwright
Further info.
A play about love, art and a cross-dressing neighbour called Death.
Lillian is a National Treasure, the country's greatest living female painter. Over her entire career she's painted only one model, her Muse, in a series of nudes spanning 30 years. Fleur has sat for Lillian since she was 19 years old.
Over one giddy weekend seen through FleurÂ’s florid imagination, everything changes. Life at Amaravati, an overgrown Arcadia somewhere in the Australian bush, is sent into a whirlwind. Fleur is gazing down the highway, longing for the dirty world while Lillian awaits the return of sensation. An extraordinary family reunion re-ignites lurid memories, sudden inspirations, betrayals, and sleepless nights.
LillianÂ’s ex, Gordon, arrives with his new wife Dorotéa, a handbag wielding carpark owner with a social conscience and painful memories of Amaravati. Ford, LillianÂ’s son, brings Vivika, his new wife, to meet the family. SheÂ’s an MTV Botticelli with eyes like broken glass and poetic ambitions.
Told with great humour and breathtaking twists and turns, this brilliant new play flashes form portrait to landscape. As the characters try to negotiate the blurry lines between fact and fiction, they rediscover passion, hunger and sing songs about food, death and celestial roulette.
"She's a dreadful woman. An artist. They show an abnormal interest till you haven't got a shred of decency left and then they drop you in a hole. Undertakers by any other name." Beatrix Christian, playwright
Further info.
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