View source for The Woman with Dog's Eyes

{{italic title}}{{one source|date=August 2011}}
[[File:Belgravia Hotel.jpg|thumb|right|An [[Edwardian]] hotel in the [[Blue Mountains (Australia)|Blue Mountains]]. "It had the feeling of another era as if the ghosts of the past and the contemporary hotel guests intermingled for a few hours." - Nowra, p. viii.]]
'''''The Woman with Dog's Eyes''''' is a play by the Australian writer [[Louis Nowra]]. It is the first part of the '''''Boyce trilogy''''' written for the [[Griffin Theatre Company]] at the behest of its Artistic Director [[David Berthold]]. The other two plays are ''[[The Marvellous Boy]]'' (2005) and ''[[The Emperor of Sydney]]'' (2006). The play is a single continuous scene set in a large [[Edwardian]] hotel room in the [[Blue Mountains (Australia)|Blue Mountains]].

It was first performed at the [[SBW Stables]] on 1 October 2004 with the following cast:

*Malcolm Boyce: [[Danny Adcock]]
*Penny, his wife: [[Jane Harders]]
*Keith, his eldest son: [[Jack Finsterer]]
*Todd, his middle son: [[Alex Dimitriades]]
*Luke, his youngest son: [[Toby Schmitz]]
*Alice, their neighbour: [[Cate Blanchett]]

The production:
*Director: [[David Berthold]]
*Designer: [[Nicholas Dare]]
*Lighting designer: Matt Marshall

The play concerns struggles for love, power and happiness within a family. It uses the 1949 song ''[[Some Enchanted Evening (song)|Some Enchanted Evening]]''.

Nowra says the play's conception was in hotels such as the [[Hydro-Majestic]]. On a night of the [[Winter Solstice]] he met a less than happy couple who were having a fortieth wedding anniversary at the Hotel Carrington, with firecrackers and a swing band.

==References==

Nowra, Louis, ''The Boyce Trilogy'', Sydney: Currency Press, 2007.
{{ISBN|978-0-86819-798-2}}

==External links==

* [https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117925483.html?categoryid=33&cs=1 ''Variety'' review]
* [https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/27/1096137160015.html?from=storyrhs Interview with actor Alex Dimitriades]
* [http://www.currency.com.au/product_detail.aspx?productid=1519&ReturnUrl=/new-titles.aspx?print=Y Currency Press, ''The Boyce Trilogy'']

{{DEFAULTSORT:Woman with Dog's Eyes}}
[[Category:Plays by Louis Nowra]]
[[Category:2004 plays]]