Set Piece single work   drama  
Date: 2022
Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Set Piece
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'With a script crafted from steamy 1950s pulp fiction, snatches of real-life dinner party conversations and improv, Set Piece is a powerfully intimate theatre-film experiment in which lesbian fantasy meets the queer ordinary. Nuanced camera work crushes the distance between observer and observed, theatre and film, and fantasy and reality.

'Absorbing, intimate and quick-witted, Set Piece is a unique study of erotic and emotional dynamics between women, a synesthetic experience for theatre and film buffs alike.'

Source: Sydney Festival.

Production Details

  • Co-presented by Sydney Festival and Performance Space at Carriageworks, 6 -9 January 2022.

    Director: Anna Breckon.

    Cast: Anni Finsterer, Dina Panozzo, Nat Randall, and Carly Sheppard.

    Set Design: Genevieve Murray (Future Method Studio).

    Choreographer: Victoria Hunt.

    Lighting Design: Karen Norris.

    Music Composition: Nina Buchanan.

    Sound Design: Daniel Herten.

    Dramaturg: Miranda Harcourt.

    Sections of script devised by Paul Blenheim, Genevieve Giuffre, Sapidah Kian, Peter Paltos, Mick Klepner Roe and Carly Sheppard.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Comic Anticlimax in Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Set Piece Sarah Balkin , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 14 June 2022;

— Review of Set Piece Anna Breckon , Nat Randall , 2022 single work drama

'Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Set Piece explores female intimacy through the relationship between screen and stage, drawing on dinner party conversation, improvisation and lesbian pulp fiction. Its generic situation and looping repetition combine to stage lesbian fantasy with a comic anticlimax.'  (Introduction)

Comic Anticlimax in Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Set Piece Sarah Balkin , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 14 June 2022;

— Review of Set Piece Anna Breckon , Nat Randall , 2022 single work drama

'Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Set Piece explores female intimacy through the relationship between screen and stage, drawing on dinner party conversation, improvisation and lesbian pulp fiction. Its generic situation and looping repetition combine to stage lesbian fantasy with a comic anticlimax.'  (Introduction)

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