The Black Sequin Dress

The Black Sequin Dress is a play by Australian playwright Jenny Kemp.

Plot
A woman leaves her children for an evening to go to a nightclub. In a moment of indecision she glances back, slips and falls. Money, desire and dreams converge as she enters a surreal world of haunting colours and lyrical distortions.

Premiere and cast
The Black Sequin Dress was commissioned for the 1996 Adelaide Festival, where the Playbox Theatre Centre premiered it on 5 March 1996 with the following cast:
 * Woman 1: Margaret Mills
 * Woman 2: Helen Herbertson
 * Woman 3: Natasha Herbert
 * Woman 4: Mary Sitarenos
 * Man: Ian Scott
 * Waiter: Greg Stone
 * Girl's voice: Romanie Harper
 * Director, Jenny Kemp
 * Composer, Elizabeth Drake
 * Designer, Jacqueline Everitt
 * Lighting designer, Ben Cobham

Publication
The play was published by Currency Press in 1996.