THEATRE – Diane Cilento in Woman Before a Glass – POSTPONED
Diane Cilento,Tony Award Winner, returns to the stage in Woman Before a Glass
- Sydney: 13 – 15 January 2010
- Melbourne: 10 – 12 February 2010
Woman Before a Glass – starring Diane Cilento Directed by Kate Gaul – POSTPONED
Parade Theatre, Kensington. Opens 16 January (Previews 13-15)
Performances Tues 6.30pm, Wed-Sat 8pm, Wed and Sat 2pm matinees
Bookings Ticketek 132 849 www.ticketek.com Group Bookings 1300 364 001
Other cities to be announced shortly!
Tony Award winner and Oscar nominee, Ms Cilento will tour Australia starring in the Australian premiere of the one-woman, tour-de-force Woman Before a Glass about the life and times of art icon Peggy Guggenheim.
The play, by award-winning US playwright Lanie Robertson (Nasty Little Secrets, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Stringbrean, Bringing Mother Down), will be directed by critically acclaimed Sydney-based director Kate Gaul and opens on 16 January at Sydney’s Parade Theatre before transferring to Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre on February 13.
Tickets for these shows are now available through Ticketek and other cities will be announced shortly.
Woman Before a Glass was originally produced in New York in 2005 with Mercedes Ruehl (from Frasier) as Peggy Guggenheim. It’s a spectacularly demanding one-woman show, set in Venice, where Peggy drops bombshells – and raises eyebrows – about her life, her famous family, her loves… and her art.
Ms Cilento will be in attendance and available for interview at a media launch Thurs 26 November 11am in the Lady Fairfax Foyer, NIDA, 215 Anzac Parade Kensington.
Diane Cilento won international acclaim as an actress during the 1950s and 1960s. The twists and turns of her extraordinary life took her from a childhood in Queensland to Broadway, then to London in the Swinging Sixties where she established an identifiably recognised and dynamic career. Tony Award winner for Tiger at the Gates and Oscar nominee as the seductive Molly in the feature film Tom Jones, Ms Cilento’s other film credits include The Admirable Crichton, Hombre with Paul Newman and The Wicker Man. She was for 12 years married to Sean Connery, with whom she has a son. Her career embraces theatre work, writing, translating, directing and instructing. The widow of playwright Anthony Shaffer, Ms Cilento turned back on stardom in the 1980s and moved to Far North Queensland, where she was inspired to realise her vision of the Karnak Playhouse, a totally unique centre for performance set in a rain forest. Ms Cilento is the mother of Giovanna and Jason.
Kate Gaul is a graduate of the NIDA Director’s Course (1996) and studied with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company in New York (2005). Kate is currently the Festival Director for World Interplay and Artistic Director of Siren Theatre Co. Kate was the Associate director at the Ensemble Theatre where productions include The Violet Hour, Kimberly Akimbo and Lobby Hero. Other directing credits include Carmen (Oz Opera), The Altar Boyz (Ovations Live), Camarilla (Merrigong Theatre Co) Coup D’Etat (MTC), The Gates of Egypt, Our Lady of Sligo, Run Rabbit Run, The Laramie Project, Svetlana in Slingbacks (Company B), Wicked Sisters (Griffin/National tour) and Rabbit (Griffin).
Woman Before a Glass is produced by Cygnet Australia. This Australian premiere production comes ahead of planned tours to Singapore, New Zealand, London, New York and Abu Dhabi (where the new Guggenheim Museum is being built).
