Publicity still for "The Yellow Wallpaper". Anita Hecht. Photographer: Unknown

The Yellow Wallpaper

15 November 2006 – 26 November 2006 Tower Theatre

Adapted for the stage by Peter Evans and Anita Hegh

Malthouse Theatre,

New Adaptation Theatre

The Yellow Wallpaper, a bent domestic psychodrama of ghosts and memories of menace, is played with haunting immediacy by Anita Hegh. The disturbing demise of her relationship reflects a society plagued by a modern panorama of diseases which simmer beneath the facades of family and the patterns of the wallpaper.

Based on the short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this moving journey is rich in emotional intensity, revealing a modern world that demands conformity: be good and mad, or bad and sane.

"AS SOON AS ANITA HEGH PROPS HERSELF PRIMLY ON A WOODEN SCHOOLROOM CHAIR AND GLANCES NEUROTICALLY AT HER RIGHT HAND, AS IF IT WERE SOME WILD ANIMAL THAT MIGHT ESCAPE ANY MOMENT, YOU REALISE YOU’RE IN FOR A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE."

— Theatre Notes