Inside Georgina Spelvin -1973- Guide

Inside Georgina Spelvin, 1973, is not just a performer. It is a philosopher of the forbidden, a theater ghost who used a dirty movie to ask a clean, devastating question: What happens to a woman who finally gets everything she thought she wanted, only to discover it was the wrong thing all along?

The script is open on the table: The Devil in Miss Jones . On paper, it’s just a series of scenes, a blunt allegory about a woman who suicides into damnation only to find her idea of hell is a perverse form of earthly freedom. But Georgina, born Shelley to a Boston family that spoke in hushed, tight-lipped tones, understands the subtext. She has always understood the secret rooms inside people. Inside Georgina Spelvin -1973-

The year is 1973. The smell of stale coffee and Aqua Net hairspray clings to the air of the cramped Manhattan apartment. Outside, the city is bankrupt, grimy, and humming with a desperate kind of energy. Inside, a woman who calls herself Georgina Spelvin stares at her own reflection in a chipped hand-mirror. She is looking for someone else. Inside Georgina Spelvin, 1973, is not just a performer