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Cordelia is a passionate meditation on death. A distracted and dream-like Lear figure, seemingly hovering between life and death, revisits the terrible pain of regret, of lost opportunities, that tortures a father grieving over the his daughter's body.
Cordelia is a rag doll in a suitcase, the once neglected, mute daughter whose body is now the fetishised object of his grief, the only witness to the wisdom he acquired too late.
Performed as part of the KTTP Season 9 at Trades Hall, December 1 - 19
Director, Ariette Taylor; Designer, Adrienne Chisholm; Lighting, Shane Grant; Stage Manager, David Presser
Cast: Malcolm Robertson
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Male | 60+ | over 10 minutes
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EXTRACT: These are the last days/ The last voices are calling the last doors are closing/ This is the last of what light remains/ (long pause)They say the world is round I'm heavy as the world my heart's a continent/ Who'll give me two crowns to make an egg? I'll suck it raw and crow at sunrise/ But where's the sun?/ It is twilight/ Even my shadow couldn't tell me who I am I'm left darkling and time lies to me/Soon everything will be as cold and dark as the sea/
Daniel Keene's website, containing interviews, extracts, introductions and production histories.
Richard Murphet's survey of Melbourne's theatre scene in the early 2000s, in which he discusses the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project.
A brief history of 45 Downstairs, host to a number of productions included in the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project.
Keene Taylor Theatre Project : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia, accessible for research purposes.
Whilst discussing the 2008 production of ' Lower Depths' by Maxim Gorky, Director, Ariette Taylor and the Australian's Fiona Gruber reflect on the aesthetic influences of the Keene/Taylor project, in particular a furniture repository belonging to the Brotherhood of St Laurence that was a cornerstone of many Keene/Taylor productions.
"For the first time I can remember, Daniel Keene has two productions on at once in his home town... Since he lives in the same house as I do, I sneakily exploited our proximity to ask him some questions. And, eventually, he answered them."
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