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1 1 My Life in the Nude Maude Davey , 2014 single work musical theatre

'In 2013 Maude Davey ‘retired’ her nude acts with this powerful and beautiful retrospective. She said it was the last time but, after an overwhelming response here she is, back in the nude again!

'“I laughed, I cried, I trembled, I ached – sublime!”

'A burlesque dissection of Maude’s un-clothed career, My Life in the Nude is a celebration of the corporeal, a queer history lesson and an urgent affirmation of shared humanity all rolled up into two unmissable hours of brutally honest cabaret.' (Production summary)
1 1 Future of the Species : Part One Maude Davey , 2011 single work drama

'A performance meditation about playing god, the economic exploitation of the body, and the capacity to kill.

The situation is either: a laboratory accommodation unit (cage); a prison cell (cage); or the basement of a suburban house in Belgium (cage).

Fundamentally it worries at the question, what is the value of a human life?' (La Mama website)
1 Every Angel is Terrible Maude Davey , Sarah Ward , Bec Matthews (composer), Sarah Ward (composer), Ania Reynolds (composer), 2011 single work musical theatre 'Using the conventions of folklore and pantomime to examine contemporary stories, this tale of filicide lifts the lid on our cultural complicity and the awfulness of crimes against children.' (The Arts Centre website)
1 y separately published work icon Parallax Island Maude Davey , David Pidd , 1999 Hobart : Australian Script Centre , 2006 Z1423166 1999 single work drama humour Not so much a play, more a performance about the performance of gender. - (from synopsis, Collection #6 (2006) p.55)
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