Blue Window

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Event Blue Window
Venue St Martins Theatre, South Yarra, VIC
First Date 9 September 1985
Last Date 5 October 1985
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description A play about seven strangers who meet at a New York dinner party. From the press release:

"The play opens as Libby, the hostess, prepares for the party and her six guests: Alice and Boo (writer and psychiatrist), Tom and Emily (musician and clerk), and Griever and Norbert, who go through the motions of dressing-up (or down), being nervous (or not), getting excited (or not).

"Libby is a woman suffering from a nervous trauma, the nature of which is revealed in the post-party wind-down, via an astonishing and moving monologue which gives the mostly comic events of [the] evening a wholly different look.

"Blue Window is about the need for love and contact between human beings and the various kinds of private obsessions, artistic or pathological, that make us inadvertently put obstacles in the way of the contact.

"But the function of the piece is not to narrate the events of this typical New York gathering - but to present diverse and seemingly chaotic fragments of social intercourse and weave them together into a piece of chamber music. Like a contemporary music composition it has its own discords, counterpoint and rhythms."
Description Source Press Release
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Kirsty Child Actor Boo
Peter Hosking Actor Norbert
Judith McGrath Actor Alice
Neil Melville Actor Tom
John O'May Actor Griever
Pamela Rabe Actor Libby
Ruth Schoenheimer Actor Emily
Frances Farmer Costume Co-ordinator
Gerry Nixon Costume Designer
Murray Copland Director
John Beckett Lighting Designer
Craig Lucas Playwright
John Beckett Set Designer
Richard Mackay-Scollay Sound Operator / Engineer
Ross Murray Stage Manager
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Text Nationality United States of America
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
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Data Reviewed By RichardMackay-Scollay on 9 October 2022
Event Identifier 92332