Interactive Broadcast
21:00 – 22:00, Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Watch the broadcast below
This broadcast includes a recording of the performance, and additional live content.
Concept: Tania Holland Williams
Music: Grist, Braithwaite and Alexander
Persephone’s Dream is a digital/live hybrid opera that tells a story of withdrawal from the world. Unpicking the rites of hibernation and exploring whether, in our waking sleep, we can still yearn, struggle, resist – be human.
Through the central figure of a biodegradable Persephone and a 2D virtual chorus of curious eyes, the piece explores the purifying power and danger of isolation. It interrogates the threshold between suspension and action, the real and the imagined and asks if the dream is good – why wake?
The initial broadcast involved audience interaction. What makes the perfect bedtime story? Are your dreams made of sand or something more substantial? We are inviting audiences to attend a nighttime engagement in PJs, with blankets close at hand and a night-time drink on the ready. We will be asking you to help us recreate a wondrous dream and set up for a perfect night’s sleep. Persephone’s Dream team warmly welcome people who identify as sleepyheads.
All ages (mostly adults)
Content warning: hints of violent intent
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Produced by Fat Lady CIC
Venue: Interactive Broadcast
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Concept and Libretto: Tania Holland Williams
Composition: Gavin Alexander, Anna Braithwaite, Kevin Grist
Director: Tania Holland Williams
Costume and Set Design and Zoom Background Design: Sarah Jane Booth
Composition Cello Mentor: Clare O’Connell
Artist Associates: Bill Bankes Jones, Wendy Daws, Clare Foster.
PR support: Janet Moore
Tech support: James Maxworthy and Jayden Lewis
CAST:
Persephone/Singer: Anna Braithwaite
Chimera/Cellist: Clare O’Connell
Sampling Musician: Gavin Alexander
Chorus of Curious Eyes: Mark Brophy, Nikki Carter, Sue Childs, Jo Eden, Sarah Howlett, Adam Jeanes, Angela McHutchon, Jacqueline Male, Julia Noakes, Gail Pallin, Mary Popple, Lin Russell, Kieran Shannon, Angela Turner, Jenny Weston, Marilyn Wheeler.
On the same day:
Concept and Libretto: Tania Holland Williams
Composition: Gavin Alexander, Anna Braithwaite, Kevin Grist
Director: Tania Holland Williams
Costume and Set Design and Zoom Background Design: Sarah Jane Booth
Composition Cello Mentor: Clare O’Connell
Artist Associates: Bill Bankes Jones, Wendy Daws, Clare Foster.
PR support: Janet Moore
Tech support: James Maxworthy and Jayden Lewis
CAST:
Persephone/Singer: Anna Braithwaite
Chimera/Cellist: Clare O’Connell
Sampling Musician: Gavin Alexander
Chorus of Curious Eyes: Mark Brophy, Nikki Carter, Sue Childs, Jo Eden, Sarah Howlett, Adam Jeanes, Angela McHutchon, Jacqueline Male, Julia Noakes, Gail Pallin, Mary Popple, Lin Russell, Kieran Shannon, Angela Turner, Jenny Weston, Marilyn Wheeler.