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Further Reading

Articles & Interviews

Between Inner and Outer Worlds click here
by Keith Gallasch, RealTime 11, February-March, 1996

Portrait of a Woman click here
by Jonathan Marshall, InPress, April, 2002

Still Angela: A Slice of the Girl click here
Mary-Ann Robinson with Jenny Kemp and collaborators, Real Time April/May 2002

Theatre of Dreams click here
by Nikki Barrowclough, Good Weekend, September 16, 1995

Landscape of the Psyche: The Dream Theatre of Jenny Kemp click here
Mark Minchinton with Jenny Kemp Performance Research 3(2) pp. 75-87 Routledge 1998

The Vision of Jenny Kemp click here
by John Larkin, The Sunday Age, April 1993

Getting the Word Out click here
Writing for Performance and dance

Relevant Texts

Acts of Resistance in Late-Modernist Theatre
by Richard Murphet. Published 2020 (Brill)

Radical Visions: 1968 – 2008: The Impact of the Sixties on Australian Drama. Chapter title Jenny Kemp – On the Edge.
by Dr Denise Varney. Published 2011. (Rodipi Press).

Transfigured Stages: Major Practitioners and Theatre Aesthetics in Australia. (Amsterdam: Rodopi). Chapter title: Jenny Kemp’s landscapes of the psyche. click here
By Dr Margaret Hamilton. Published 2012.

The Doll’s Revolution
Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination

by Dr Rachel Fensham and Denise Varney
Published in 2005 by Australian Scholarly Publishing ISBN 1 740970888

Contemporary Theatre Review
Volume 14 issue 3 August 2004, Routledge
‘Desire and Danger in the Long Journey from Door to Table: An Exploration of Movement in Jenny Kemp’s The Black Sequin Dress.’ By Libby Worth Page 53

Hecate
Vol.29 No.1 ‘Modernity and the White Imaginary in Australian Feminist Theatre’ y Dr Rachel Fensham, pp7-18, 2003

Playing with Time – Women Writers for Performance
Edited by V. Baxter, Playworks, 1995

Meanjin
3/1994 Spring on “Australian Theatre Criticism”

Art and Australia
by H. Mcdonald, Vol 34 no.2 Summer, 1996

The Concise Companion to Theatre in Australia
Edited by K. Brisbane, Currency Press, Sydney, 1997

Australasian Drama Studies
by R. Fensham and D. Varney “‘Help me, I’m Drowning!’ Calls the Man in Jenny Kemp’s The Black Sequin Dress” Heterosexual Masculinity in Feminist Performance, April 1999.

Beyond the Lights/The Exhibition
Catalogue, Victorian Arts Centre, 1996-97

Essays and other writings

Erotic Ambiguities – The Female Nude in Art click here
by Helen McDonald, Published by Routledge, pp.173-175, 2001

Biographical Entry for Jenny Kemp click here
from She Also Wrote Plays – An International Guide to Women Playwrights from the 10th to the 21st century by Susan Croft, Published by Faber and Faber, 2001

Converging Realities – Feminism in Australian Theatre click here
by Peta Tait, Currency Press, Sydney in conjunction with Artmoves, Melbourne pp. 86-91 1994

A Dialogue with Disjunction click here
by Jenny Kemp from Telling Time, edited by Virginia Baxter, Playworks 1996

Reviews

Call of the Wild
People Power Hits Melbourne click here
by Allison Croggon, The Bulletin, 3rd October, 1989

Coherent Inventive Anarchy click here
by Pamela Payne, The Sydney Morning Herald, 9th March, 1990

The Fantasy Confronted click here
by Rosemary Neill, Sunday Age, 1st October, 1989

A Powerful Piece on Being Female click here
by John Larkin, The Sunday Age, 24th September 1989

Remember
Remember – A Critical Examination of an Act of Murder click here
from Full Hans, 5th April, 1993

Imagistic Vision of Rape click here
by Leonard Radic, The Age, 29th March, 1993

Remember click here
Stage Whispers, April, 1993

Remember click here
by Miria Kostiuk, Lots Wife, 19th April, 1993

Remember Review (untitled) click here
by Fiona Scott-Norman, The Bulletin, 20th April, 1993

Remember click here
by Angela Geylswyh, The Swine, 5th April, 1993

The Black Sequin Dress
Sure-footed Elegance click here
by Guy Rundle, The Age, 21st March, 1996

Edge of Reality click here
by Tom Wright, Herald Sun, 22nd March, 1996

Surreal Plunge into Distant Memories click here
by Louise Nunn, The Adelaide Advertiser, 8th March, 1996

Stage Whispers click here
by Steven Carroll, EG-Stage (The Age), 22nd March, 1996

Still Angela
Journey Into the Underworld click here
by Helen Thomson, The Age, 12th April, 2002

Angelic Images click here
by Sian Prior, The Sunday Age, 14th April, 2002

A Dream Debut click here
Highlights, The Age, April, 2002

Angela A Woman of the Worlds click here
by Kate Herbert, Herald Sun, 15th April, 2002

Time and the Theatre Fix click here
by Keith Gallasch, Real Time June/July 2002

Madeleine
Madeleine / Research Statement click here

Madeleine Review click here
by Keith Gallasch, Real Time 99, Oct-Dec 2010

Ambitious Delusions of Grandeur click here
by Cameron Woodhead, Courtesy of: The Age – Saturday August 7, 2010

Madeleine: Re-animate the image click here
by Tony Reck 17th August 2010

Madeleine click here
by Suzanne Sandow, Courtesy of Stage Whisphers,

Scripts: Full Copies of Scripts by Jenny Kemp

Call of the Wild
Performing the Unnamable – An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts
(includes “Call of the Wild”), edited by Richard James Allen and Karen Pearlman,Currency Press Sydney in Association with Realtime, 1999

Remember
Australian Women’s Drama – Texts and Feminisms
Includes “Remember”, Edited by Peta Tait and Elizabeth Schafer, Currency Press – Sydney, 1997

The Black Sequin Dress 
by Jenny Kemp, Currency Theatre Series, Currency Press, Sydney in association with Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, 1996

Still Angela
by Jenny Kemp, Currency Theatre Series, Currency Press, Sydney in association with Playbox Theatre, Melbourne 2002

Madeleine & Kitten
The full scripts of Madeleine & Kitten available at Australian Plays for online purchase.

Full Length DVDs Shifting and Sliding – the feminine psyche in performance. A full length DVD, documentary on Black Sequin Productions. Available through Contemporary Arts Media.

Still Angela – a full length DVD of the original and touring versions of Still Angela. Available through Contemporary Arts Media.

Madeleine – a full length DVD of Madeleine. Available through Contemporary Arts Media.

Full Length DVDs

Shifting and Sliding – the feminine psyche in performance. A full length DVD, documentary on Black Sequin Productions. Available through Contemporary Arts Media.

Still Angela – a full length DVD of the original and touring versions of Still Angela. Available through Contemporary Arts Media.

Madeleine – a full length DVD of Madeleine. Available through Contemporary Arts Media.

Links

Malthouse Theatre
 Malthouse Theatre

Jenny Kemp on Doollee
Doollee Playwrights Database

Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber

Currency Press
Currency Press

Routledge
Routledge

Realtime Arts Magazine
RealTime Arts Magazine

Playbox
PlayBox Theatre

Playworks Publishing
Playworks Publishing

Contemporary Arts Media
Contemporary Arts Media

The Australia Council for the Arts
The Australia Council for the Arts

Arts Victoria
Arts Victoria

James Hillman
James Hillman

The Paul Delvaux Museum
The Paul Delvaux Museum, Belgium

City of Melbourne
City of Melbourne

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