SYNOPSIS
According to legend, Waltz No.6 also known as the Minute Waltz was composed by Fredrick Chopin while visiting George Sand, and watching Sand's dog chasing his own tail over and over. In the one hour play, Waltz No.6, Nelson Rodrigues depicts a teenager who similarly is chasing her own tail as she struggles with the issues of sexuality, guilt, and repression in a narrow religious society that places proper appearances above all else.
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SYNOPSIS
According to legend, Waltz No.6 also known as the Minute Waltz was composed by Fredrick Chopin while visiting George Sand, and watching Sand's dog chasing his own tail over and over. In the one hour play, Waltz No.6, Nelson Rodrigues depicts a teenager who similarly is chasing her own tail as she struggles with the issues of sexuality, guilt, and repression in a narrow religious society that places proper appearances above all else.
The teenager is alone on stage for the duration of this intense two act play. In the beginning of the play, she is bewildered by her surroundings. She cannot recall the facts of her life, nor whether she is a little girl or a young woman. She gradually remembers two names, Sonia and Paulo. She recalls her mother, her father, and a sinister and repulsive doctor, who she mocks.
In the second act, the character gradually reconstructs her life story, as she assembles clues from puzzle pieces of her memory. The climax occurs when the girl hears a scream of fear and realizes that she and Sonia are one in the same. In the shock of that instant she realizes that she, Sonia, has been murdered.
But by whom?
