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She's Not Performing single work   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 She's Not Performing
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'Margarite visits a club and sees a stripper who is a mirror image of herself. She begins to believe that this could be the daughter she was pressured to adopt out as a teenager.

'She’s Not Performing journeys through the psyche of a woman living in a hyper-sexualised world as she searches for a child she once lost, grappling with subconscious fantasies and fears about her ability to reclaim her identity as a mother.

'Pulsing with bold images and stripped-back language, it’s a darkly surreal and tender look at past adoption practices in Australia and the impact they have in the present day.'

Source: Tasmanian Theatre Company.

Production Details

  • First produced at La Mama Theatre, Carlton, Victoria, 18 August 2010.

    Director: Kelly Somes.

    Dramaturg: Maude Davey.


    Produced by the Tasmanian Theatre Company at the Theatre Royal, 21 - 29 November 2013.

    Director: Belinda Bradley.

    Cast: Bryony Geeves, Sara Pensalfini, Cam McKenzie, and Jo Clements.

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Works about this Work

A Modern Take on Mother and Child Martin Ball , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 August 2010; (p. 15)

— Review of She's Not Performing Alison Mann , 2010 single work drama
A Modern Take on Mother and Child Martin Ball , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 August 2010; (p. 15)

— Review of She's Not Performing Alison Mann , 2010 single work drama
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