title: The Black Sequin Dress
text: # The Black Sequin Dress
  
  The Black Sequin Dress is a play by Australian playwright Jenny Kemp.
  
  ## Plot
  
  A woman leaves her children for an evening to go to a nightclub. In a moment of indecision she glances back, slips and falls. Money, desire and dreams converge as she enters a surreal world of haunting colours and lyrical distortions.
  
  ## Premiere and cast
  
  The Black Sequin Dress was commissioned for the 1996 Adelaide Festival, where the Playbox Theatre Centre premiered it on 5 March 1996 with the following cast:
  
  * Woman 1: Margaret Mills
  * Woman 2: Helen Herbertson
  * Woman 3: Natasha Herbert
  * Woman 4: Mary Sitarenos
  * Man: Ian Scott
  * Waiter: Greg Stone
  * Girl's voice: Romanie Harper
  * Director, Jenny Kemp
  * Composer, Elizabeth Drake
  * Designer, Jacqueline Everitt
  * Lighting designer, Ben Cobham
  
  ## Publication
  
  The play was published by Currency Press in 1996.
  
  