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'The Yellow Wallpaper' is set at just prior to the turn of the 20th century and is written as a series of diary entries by a woman whose physician husband, John, has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working, socializing and writing (her passion), so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression -- a slight hysterical tendency". This diagnosis was commonly given to women of that period, and they were often subjected to Dr Weir Mitchell's ghastly "rest cure".
The story depicts the effect of confinement and suppression on the narrator, and we witness the deterioration of her mental health to the point where she enters into dissociative psychosis. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes fixated by the yellow wallpaper in her room and the impenetrable pattern on it.
She imagines she can see firstly one woman creeping around behind the pattern of the wallpaper, then many. Eventually she comes to believe that she is one of them and has to get back behind the wallpaper. She locks herself in the room, and proceeds to rip off all the wallpaper in an effort to "get out at last". The story ends with John witnessing his wife creeping and circling around the walls of the room. He faints and she continues to creep over his body.
The vision behind this work is to explore the themes of female subservience, creative repression and dissociative psychosis. The latter is addressed by splitting the role of the narrator into three parts -- voice, mind and body - with one performer per part. An off-stage opera singer provides the voice, an actress communicates the workings of the mind, and a dancer gives physicality to the body. This gives the audience an opportunity to follow any one of the three distinct, yet interlocked interpretations, whilst serving to emphasize the nature of dissociation. The blurry boundaries of different levels of 'being' are also explored and exaggerated through the meshing of the three art forms.
Choreography: Paul Chantry
Composer: Ronald Corp
Director: Gail Gordon
Narrator (body): Rae Piper
Narrator (mind): Lindsay Dukes
John: Paul Chantry
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