Live Performance
21:00-21:30, Wednesday 16th September 2020
The Cockpit
Music: Edward Lambert
Words: Leo Doulton
Following fire, flood and virus, two survivors wander in a barren landscape. They come across the self-isolating, stockpiling Queen of Cans in her bunker, who invites them in to party. Can love blossom even as life on Earth perishes? And who or what is the Dark One of whom they are so terrified? Stripped to its essentials, with only an accordion for company, this comic opera turns out to be no laughing matter. Performed in costume, semi-staged.
The initial broadcast included a Q&A for the creative team to ask the audience questions about the creative process!
Age range 15+, adult humour
Produced by The Music Troupe
Venue: The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, London NW8 8EH.
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Words: Leo Doulton
Music: Edward Lambert
Co-director: Simon Gleave
Co-director: Adrian Ardelean
Musical Director: Elspeth Wilkes
Design: Charlie Wood
Producer: Katie Gunn
Queen: Emily Thorner (soprano)
Squib; Gráinne Gillis (mezzo-soprano)
Lissa: Simon Grange (bass)
Accordion: Ilona Suomalainen
Dark One: Henry Clements (treble)
Production Assistant: Layla Bradbeer
Movement Director: Korina Kokkali
On the same day:
- A Time of Empty Tales (Interactive Broadcast), 18:00-19:00
- Minutes to Midnight: A Nuclear Opera (Live Performance), 19:00-19:40
- BIRD (Interactive Broadcast), 20:00-21:00
Words: Leo Doulton
Music: Edward Lambert
Co-director: Simon Gleave
Co-director: Adrian Ardelean
Musical Director: Elspeth Wilkes
Design: Charlie Wood
Producer: Katie Gunn
Queen: Emily Thorner (soprano)
Squib; Gráinne Gillis (mezzo-soprano)
Lissa: Simon Grange (bass)
Accordion: Ilona Suomalainen
Dark One: Henry Clements (treble)
Production Assistant: Layla Bradbeer
Movement Director: Korina Kokkali