Carmilla, 9781760622305
Paperback
Carmilla is a ghost story for theatre, enmeshing spoken word and through composed music for live chamber orchestra. The play explores violence, transgressive sexuality and the fragile boundary between the living and the dead.

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  • Paperback

    48 pages

  • Release Date

    10 May 2018

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Summary

‘You are afraid to die? Yes, everyone is!

But to die as lovers may die—to die together,

so that they may live together?’

Carmilla is a ghost story for theatre, enmeshing spoken word and through composed music for live chamber orchestra. This adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s controversial 1872 gothic novella explores violence, transgressive sexuality and the fragile boundary between the living and the dead.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781760622305
ISBN-10:1760622303
Author:Adam Yee, Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher:Currency Press Pty Ltd
Imprint:Currency Press Pty Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:48
Release Date:10 May 2018
Weight:78g
Dimensions:210mm x 137mm x 6mm
About The Author

Adam Yee

ADAM YEE is a composer and Head of Music at King David School and Melbourne University. He wrote his first opera Don’t Open the Door at age 17 just after finishing his final VCE exam. He is a graduate of the VCA, Melbourne University and the RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, and is currently a PhD Candidate in the Education Faculty at Monash. He has been a contributor to VCE curriculum development since 2005. Carmilla is his fifth stage work. Yee’s previous shows at La Mama include Don’t Open the Door (1992), The Road to Hell is Paved With Slaughter (1993) and Bangers (1994).

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