Three Women and the Sea

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Event Three Women and the Sea
Venue Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn, Wellington, New Zealand
First Date 1961
Dates Estimated No
Status Amateur
World Premiere No
Description … The plot can be quickly summed up: Sensitive wife is mismated with priggish ideologue who would (apparently) rather curl up with a cosy anti-bomb petition after a hard day's lecturing at the Training College. Wife seeks consolation with callow Catholic poet and quondam student of the master of the house; gets pregnant, discovers love for husband, sets boy-wonder free (he runs like a rat up a drainpipe) and settles down to hard-won mutual bliss with husband who, all along, has yearned dumbly for her behind his Newe Statesman. At obtuse anges to this geometry are a girl hobo drifting until her man gets out of jail, the life-denying but comical social-climbing sister of the adultress who has anaesthetized her erogenous zones to make her bourgeois world safe and a Roman Catholic Fisherman, natural philosopher - one of the meek hanging about to inherit the earth - with a private telephone to the deity. …
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Helen Brew Actor
Richard Campion Director
James Baxter Playwright
Text Nationality New Zealand
Production Nationality New Zealand
Further Information A double bill, presented with Free at Victoria University's new theatre.
Event Status Completed
Data Set Theatre Aotearoa
Event Identifier 190299