Stanley

Referencing the character Stanley in the film In This Our Life directed by John Huston in 1942.

The character Stanley is played by Bette Davis, she plays the bad sister and Olivia de Havilland plays the good sister.

In Stanley Redux, the performer contemplates inherent restrictions on how the two sisters should and should not behave. She is caught up in fragments of dialogue from Hollywood films, that resonate with her own moral dilemmas.

Moving through faltering poses she daydreams about predatory film noir female roles weighing up the possibilities of being Ursula, Carmen or Nadine?