Week Two: 29 July – 1 August
A DOUBLE BILL
” On insomnia and Midnight”
by Edgar Chias
translated by David Johnston
Australian Premiere
In an anonymous Mexican hotel a series of ritualistic encounters between an older European man and a young South American maid develop into a provocative and ambiguous game of power and obsession. A gripping and tense exposé of a potentially fatal encounter unfolds as the unnamed man coaxes the woman into revealing the most intimate details of her sexual awakening,
“Like a Last Tango in Paris scripted by Nabokov … unnerving and erotically charged” – Village Voice
Director Alexandra Byron
Cast Nastassja Djalog and Barry French
http://www.newtheatre.org.au/