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Lashings of whipped cream, 1993

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<em>Lashings of whipped cream</em>, 1993

Subtitled A session with a teenage dominatrix, Fiona Samuel's Lashings of whipped cream was first performed at Circa Theatre in Wellington in September 1993. Playing Mistress Dominique, Samuel appears on this poster for the production. Her play was subsequently performed throughout New Zealand and overseas. In 2014 a production opened in Melbourne, Australia, with drag artist Rhubarb Rouge as Dominique. 

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-D-CIRCA-1993-01

Courtesy of Circa Theatre

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Murray Edmond, Plays and playwrights – Social issues on stage, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/43971/lashings-of-whipped-cream-1993 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Murray Edmond, i tāngia i te 16 January 2014.