A TEENAGE girl, sex, death and a piano; all the tense, alluring offerings of a Brazilian playwright's first ever British stage production. StoneCrabs Theatre Company present Nelson Rodrigues' Waltz No.6 at Greenwich Playhouse.
A young woman oscillates between death and dreams, to the melody of Chopin's eponymous music.
Rodrigues throws his audience back and forth between the innocent and disturbing, as the leading lady's detached and confused memories are revealed.
Sounds dark but we are also promised Waltz No.6 is strangely funny.
Written in 1951, this translation by Rodrigues son, Joffre, is the play's first performance in English.
StoneCrabs director Franko Figueiredo brings the Brazilian playwright's work to the UK for the first time and his procrastinator is award-winning Brazilian actress Najilla Kay.
Rodrigues died in 1980. His career spanned four decades with much of his work considered disturbing and offensive. One production, Family Album, was banned for 21 years.
-Waltz No.6, Greenwich Playhouse, Greenwich Station Forecourt, Greenwich High Road, June 28 to July 24, 4pm, £11, 020 8858 9256.
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