Bombshells
Six comic monologues portray women ranging from a feisty teenager to a 64-year-old widow, each balancing her inner and outer life with humour and often desperate cunning.
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Six comic monologues portray women ranging from a feisty teenager to a 64-year-old widow, each balancing her inner and outer life with humour and often desperate cunning.
George leaves his middle-aged wife Honor and their 24-year-old daughter Sophie to pursue a relationship with the much younger Claudia.
Paul Grabowsky’s opera with a libretto by Joanna Murray-Smith premiered for OzOpera at the Melbourne Festival in October 2002.
Wealthy couple Iris and Jed are happily divorcing and host an elaborate party. Iris's sister Louise is secretly in love with Jed, while Toby is an aspiring artist hired as a waiter and Caroline, the couple's assistant, is pursued by loan sharks. By the end of the evening, the divorce has unsettled the characters' assumptions and sent them in unexpected directions.
Margot Mason is a feminist writer suffering from writer's block; she can not meet the deadlines for her next book. Molly Rivers, a deranged former student of Margot's, arrives unexpectedly at her country home with a gun and handcuffs Mason to her desk. Molly blames Margot for warping her mother's mind with her hit book The Cerebral Vagina. Following Margot's advice, Molly's mother gave Molly away as a baby so that she wouldn't be enslaved by motherhood and then killed herself. Molly has had herself sterilized to preserve her creativity, only to be told by Margot that she has no talent. Margot's daughter Tess arrives, exhausted from her house full of children. Margot has accused Tess of throwing her life away to embrace the role of housewife. Tess agrees that her mother should be shot. Tess's sensitive stockbroker husband, Bryan also arrives to debate the virtues of Margot's best-sellers, her inconsistent philosophy, and her inability to "mother". Even a macho taxi driver (Frank) and Margot's flamboyantly gay publisher (Theo) comment on her feminist failings.
Six comic monologues portray women ranging from a feisty teenager to a 64-year-old widow, each balancing her inner and outer life with humour and often desperate cunning.
George leaves his middle-aged wife Honor and their 24-year-old daughter Sophie to pursue a relationship with the much younger Claudia.
Paul Grabowsky’s opera with a libretto by Joanna Murray-Smith premiered for OzOpera at the Melbourne Festival in October 2002.
Wealthy couple Iris and Jed are happily divorcing and host an elaborate party. Iris's sister Louise is secretly in love with Jed, while Toby is an aspiring artist hired as a waiter and Caroline, the couple's assistant, is pursued by loan sharks. By the end of the evening, the divorce has unsettled the characters' assumptions and sent them in unexpected directions.
Margot Mason is a feminist writer suffering from writer's block; she can not meet the deadlines for her next book. Molly Rivers, a deranged former student of Margot's, arrives unexpectedly at her country home with a gun and handcuffs Mason to her desk. Molly blames Margot for warping her mother's mind with her hit book The Cerebral Vagina. Following Margot's advice, Molly's mother gave Molly away as a baby so that she wouldn't be enslaved by motherhood and then killed herself. Molly has had herself sterilized to preserve her creativity, only to be told by Margot that she has no talent. Margot's daughter Tess arrives, exhausted from her house full of children. Margot has accused Tess of throwing her life away to embrace the role of housewife. Tess agrees that her mother should be shot. Tess's sensitive stockbroker husband, Bryan also arrives to debate the virtues of Margot's best-sellers, her inconsistent philosophy, and her inability to "mother". Even a macho taxi driver (Frank) and Margot's flamboyantly gay publisher (Theo) comment on her feminist failings.