Interactive Broadcast
20:00-21:00, Thursday 24th September 2020
Watch the broadcast below
This broadcast includes a recording of the performance, and additional live content.
Music: Liam Wade
Words: Charles Ogilvie
Bread and Circuses: ‘’an opera in two acts and a wrestling show’’.
Imagine a mash-up between World Wrestling Entertainment, verismo opera, and 90s style videogaming.
Set in the world of professional wrestling, the show explores ‘’Kayfabe’’: when we choose to accept the staged rivalries and relationships between wrestlers as real.
The show’s sound world is a fusion of opera, musical theatre, and 90s electronica. With music direction by Mark Johnson, score by Liam Wade, libretto by Charles Ogilvie, and stage direction by Julia Mintzer.
Surreal, daring and pacey, the energy and smack of Bread & Circuses takes no prisoners.
The initial broadcast included the company giving a live introduction to the interactive broadcast of their opera, and taking questions from the audience in a chat after the performance.
Age range: 13 upwards
Content Warning: Cartoon violence
Click here to download a programme for Bread and Circuses.
Produced by Eleanor Benson
Venue: Interactive Broadcast
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On the same day:
Liam Wade, composer/MC Charles Ogilvie, librettist/designer Julia Mintzer, stage director Mark Johnston, music director Camilla Kersalke, designer Grainne Gillis, contralto Dev Bye-a-Jee, Sebastian Winnett, Ravensbourne Gaming Department; game design
Music: Liam Wade
Words: Charles Ogilvie
Original concept: Mark Johnston
Additional development: Julia Mintzer
Producer: Eleanor Benson
Music Director: Mark Johnston
Stage Director: Julia Mintzer
Assistant Director: Eleanor Burke
Production Manager: Ryan Wilce
Shaunie Flynn: Camilla Kerslake
Ada Vance: Grainne Gilllis
Voice of Vince Flynn: John Packard
Voice of the MC: Liam Wade
Piano: Mark Johnston
Percussion: Darren Berry
Video Game developed by: Ravensbourne University
Led by: Dev Bye-a-Jee
Animators: Philip Kakala, Sam Galloway, Jez Fermor, Sebastian Winnett
In consultation with: Charles Ogilvie and Sebastian Winnett