Year 12 Drama Production - Chamber Music
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Arthur Kopit’s Chamber Music is a darkly comic absurdist play set in a 1930s women’s asylum, where eight patients—each claiming to be a famous historical woman—plan to defend themselves from an unseen male threat. Whether their identities are real or imagined, their confinement by male doctors reflects a world where non-conforming women are silenced and disempowered.Our production focuses on the politics of fear and the nature of authority. Written during the Cold War, the play’s paranoia and suspicion speak to any era where leaders sustain power by creating enemies and suppressing dissent. In the claustrophobic world of the asylum, the women cling to their claimed personas as a way to hold onto status and meaning, even as their grip on reality slips. Are they insane, or simply adapting to survive in an oppressive system?
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Wednesday 24 September 2025 - Thursday 25 September 2025 (UTC+09:30)Location
Br Stephen Debourg Performing Arts Centre
Sacred Heart College Marcellin Campus, Somerton Park SA
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