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A young man. Alone on a chair in a small room. The room is in an institution. The young man is possessed by a vicious dog. In this potent and spare monologue, Keene turns his attention to a young machine worker in the grip of psychosis. Touching and terrifying in equal measure, Dog was part of the Keene Taylor Project, orginally performed by Dan Spielman.
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EXTRACT: And the dog opened one red eye and said/ I'm dreaming of you and how you were born coming up through your mother's gullet trapped in your caul your claws scrabbling your tongue lolling your blind eyes rolling in your huge head coming up through your mother's gullet and into her mouth sliding over her tongue and resting there just behind her teeth until she screamed and you fell from her mouth and onto her lap thrashing in a pool of blood/ And I said to the dog/ Were you there?
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.
Keene Taylor Theatre Project : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia, accessible for research purposes.
A brief history of 45 Downstairs, host to a number of productions included in the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project.
Richard Murphet's survey of Melbourne's theatre scene in the early 2000s, in which he discusses the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project.
Daniel Keene's website, containing interviews, extracts, introductions and production histories.
"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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