Continental Shelf
All plays are available for fair use.
For Performance Rights, contact Suzanne Spunner
Books by and about Nabokov
vera and volodya
2005
A play for eight actors, four men/four women.
About Vladimir and Vera Nabokov - his lectures on European Literature at Cornell University in the fifties and her attendance at all of them playing the role of his assistant; an intertextual play with Anna Karenin, Emma Bovary and Lolita all making appearances. (unpublished and unproduced)
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Dora Maar, 1936
dora dolorosa
2006
A monologue for one woman.
Set at a cafe table.
Dora Maar aka ‘The Weeping Woman’ plays a knife game and recalls her relationship with Picasso, dissecting herself and the other women, who came before her and those ones who came after.
Commissioned by NGV Public Programs; exhibition, ‘Picasso Love & War 1935-1945’. Performed NGV, International, Melbourne
Video/film version made at La Trobe University Drama Dept, direction by Meredith Rogers.
The Black Manikin
My ongoing interest in the life of Helena Rubinstein was piqued with the release of a new book, rather unimaginatively titled- Helena Rubinstein- The adventure of beauty published by Flammarion in association with an exhibition in Paris this year, at the Musee d’Art et Histoire du Judaisme. The book not surprisingly made little of her life in Melbourne and the role of NGV which was what had piqued me first.
Read here something I prepared earlier.
