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'Kitten looms on the edge of a cliff, her lover perhaps lost to the sea, his best friend at her side. She is a song in three movements, a fragmented, untameable self. She surrounds herself with the relics of a love lost, but memory alone won't fill the void. This yearning becomes a vacuum so powerful it threatens to devour her world. The landscape of a mind in disorder has no horizon.
'Kitten's rollercoaster journey from the depths of despair to soaring hope makes for theatre at its most powerful, freeing us from the illusion that everyday life is a realm removed from our hidden interiors.'
Source: Malthouse Theatre website, http://www.malthousetheatre.com.au/
Sighted: 22/09/2008
Notes
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'Kitten' was jointly commissioned by Melbourne International Arts Festival, Malthouse Theatre and Black Sequin Productions. The script was developed with support from the Major Festivals Initiative, the Theatre Fund, Australia Council and the 2006 Australian National Playwrights' Conference.
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The first play in a series of three exploring mental illness. The second play in the series is 'Madeleine' (2010).
Production Details
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Produced by Malthouse Theatre, Beckett Theatre, Melbourne, 3-25 October 2008. Director: Jenny Kemp.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Beyond Mourning, a New Dawn
2008
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— Appears in: The Age , 20 September 2008; (p. 14-15)
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Beyond Mourning, a New Dawn
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 20 September 2008; (p. 14-15)
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