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By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Adapted for the stage by Peter Evans
and Anita Hegh
Direction Peter Evans
Performed by Anita Hegh
Set and Costume Design Adam Gardnir
Lighting Design Luke Hails
Sound Design Roger Alsop
"As soon as Anita Hegh props herself primly on a wooden schoolroom
chair
and glances neurotically at her right hand, as if it were some wild
animal that
might escape any moment, you realise youre in for a special
performance."
Alison Croggon, theatre notes
A woman is trapped: in the docility of a domestic marriage, or between
the
distorting yellow walls of her bedroom and prison?
The Yellow Wallpaper, a bent domestic psychodrama of ghosts
and memories
of menace, is played with haunting immediacy by Anita Hegh. The
disturbing
demise of her relationship reflects a society plagued by a modern
panorama of
diseases which simmer beneath the facades of family and the patterns
of the
wallpaper.
Based on the short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
this
moving journey is rich in emotional intensity, revealing a modern
world that
demands conformity: be good and mad, or bad and sane.
The Yellow Wallpaper was originally presented by The Storeroom
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