The Withered Arm
Saturday 6th 19.55 & Sunday 7th August, 16.55
Disquiet
Composer: Jenny Gould
Librettist: Rachel Barnett
Director: Joanna Turner
Set & Costume Design: Petra Hjortsberg
Lighting: Avril Cook
Video Design: Verity Healey
Fight Director: Ronin Traynor
Featuring:
Rhoda: Janet Fischer
Gertrude: Lucy Roberts
Narrator/the Son: Matthew James Willis
Narrator/Farmer Lodge/Trendle: Dan Miller
The Withered Arm retells Thomas Hardy’s exciting, eerie story set on the wilds of Egdon Heath. The story details extremes of obsession, loneliness, friendship, love and loss. A new arrival to a small rural community creates gossip and superstition as, following a terrifying vision, two women’s destinies are inextricably and tragically intertwined.
The making of this video has been kindly
supported by The Boltini Trust
After receiving Arts Council England funding for our Research & Development period in September 2010, with additional support from The Hardy Society and Opera North, we are delighted to be presenting the next stage of the piece’s development here at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival. We are showing the whole of the first act and aim to stage excerpts from Act Two.
We are hoping that this adventure will enable us to find the much needed support from producers, venues, and funders that we need to bring our opera to fruition.
