The Yellow Wallpaper
By Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Adapted by Fiona Ross
Directed by Sue Colverd
Though the Yellow Wallpaper is a work of fiction, it was based on Gilman’s own experience after being diagnosed as an hysteric and prescribed a ‘rest cure’ which prohibited her writing and labelled her feminism and social critique as symptoms of uterine illness.
Summer 2006
Red Dog, in partnership with the Everyman present two new world premieres
June 14 to June 24 2006
Jocasta Mama
By Anne Pearson
Directed by Sue Colverd
Jocasta, Antigone, and Ismene face the shocking truth of their incestuous family. The Oedipus story through the eyes of it’s astonishing females.