The Yellow Wallpaper
T1456514543
A writer is confined in an attic by her husband. Haunted by echoes of a previous occupant (and the awful wallpaper) she sets off on a mission to expose the pattern. A gothic horror and commentary on Victorian sexual politics.
Archive :: production:T1456514543, play:S5633, venue:V1163069430
Production details
A radical new staging of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's semi-autobiographical and hugely influential novella. Gilman's pioneering 1892 feminist classic is brought to life in a genre-defying production blending theatre, dance, live video and sound. A young mother, confined to a room in a country estate by her physician husband, slowly becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper surrounding her. In her isolation, she sees a woman trapped in the patterns that she must attempt to free. This moving, dark and hallucinatory story explores identity and the physical and mental prisons we inhabit.
