A great hit in our 2008 Festival, Tête a Tête will  again rehearse, develop and perform three brand new super-short,

operas all over the riverside studios, in foyers, theatres, and public places across the borough including: Ravenscourt Park, Bishop’s Park, Lyric Square and Fulham Palace.

Golden Years – Music: Jordan Hunt & La JohnJoseph

The Upper Clapton Senior Citizens Light Operatic Society is back in town! Septuagenarian soprano Livinia Greengarden is about to take to the stage in the most wildly anticipated show of her career. In the audience is notoriously prim, Claudine d’Armoire, Hackney’s art’s council funding co-ordinator. Will all go well?

Lear TV – Music: Joanna Lee. Words: Howard Skempton

Inspired by Edward Lear’s The Duck and the Kangaroo. Set in a news channel (a super-dramatic American one) two presenters; Ed (a vain and gregarious duck) and Sheila (a stunning bimbo of a kangaroo) fall in love and are leaving the screen to ‘hop the whole world three times round’.

Toxic Assets – Music: Joe Cutler. Words: Peter Burt

Mr Green comes to see Ms Wise about opening an account to save money to buy a house. Mr Wise persuades him to opt for a high interest structured product and to part with large sums of money deposited in a piggy bank. What happens next is a modern day parable based on our current ‘credit crunch’ times.

The Inventor… - Music & Words: Dominique Le Gendre.

An athletic and twinkly-eyed Eastern European waiter flirts playfully with a giggly lady-who-lunches  on a sunny terrace. Through an exchange filled with double entendre we hear his vigorous lament and yearning for a place in his own corrupt, poverty stricken country.

Performers: Singers Danny Broad & Louise Mott, Accompanied by Tim Murray/JP Gandy and Stuart King, Director Bill Bankes-Jones.

Dates/ Times & Venues

Thursday 30 July, 5pm Lyric Square

Friday 31 July, 5pm Furnival Gardens

Thursday 6 August, 5pm Lyric Square

Friday 7 August, 5 pm Furnival Park

Saturday 8 August,  3pm Lyric Sq, 4pm Ravenscourt Park, 5pm Furnvial Gardens

Sunday 9 August,  2pm Fileders Meadow Bishops Park, 3pm Normand Park

Thursday 13 August, 5pm Lyric Square

Friday 14 August, 5pm Furnival Gardens

Saturday 15 August, 3pm Lyric Square, 4pm Ravenscourt Park, 5pm Furnival Gardens

Sunday 16 August, 2pm Fielders Meadow Bishop’s Park, 3pm Normand Park