21:20-22:20, Tuesday 6th August 2019
Music & Words: Alastair White
A posthuman fantasia about cartography, cyberpunk and the A.I. singularity featuring high fashion, contemporary dance and musical virtuosity – from the team that created the “spellbinding” (Boulezian) award-nominated WEAR.
Descending into the mind of the superintelligence EDINBURGH, a young cartographer is tasked with mapping this creature so as to grant its desire: to become a living city. But they grow close, and she weaves into the map those things that cannot be known or spoken: the hidden histories of joy and longing each privately our own. As these rifts in the structure undo causality itself, she must answer the question: what exactly has she created?
Supported by the Hinrichsen Foundation and the Goldsmiths Graduate Fund, Music Research Committee and Music Department.
Produced by UU Studios
The Place, 17 Duke’s Road, London, WC1H 9PY
You can read and download here the ROBE – DIGITAL LIBRETTO and PROGRAMME
Website: www.alastairwhite.org/
Words & Music: Alastair White
Co-Director: Gemma A. Williams
Co-Director: Pamela Schermann
Music Director: Ben Smith
Choreographer: Max Gershon
Executive Producer: Julian Wilkins
Fashion: Michael Stewart
Design: Brian Archer
Hair: Radio Hair Salon
Make-Up Design: Astrid Kearney assisted by the London School of Makeup LSM Pro team.
Cast:
Rowan, The Mapmaker: Clara Kanter
Neachneohain, the Official: Rosie Middleton
Beira, the Soldier: Sarah Parkin
The Storyteller: Kelly Poukens
EDINBURGH: Rosie Middleton & Sarah Parkin
Ensemble:
Music Director: Ben Smith
Piano: Ben Smith
Flute: Jenni Hogan
Dancers:
Charlie Nayler
Thomas Page
Moses Ward
Actors:
Keith Chilvers
Megan Moran
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Words & Music: Alastair White
Co-Director: Gemma A. Williams
Co-Director: Pamela Schermann
Music Director: Ben Smith
Choreographer: Max Gershon
Executive Producer: Julian Wilkins
Fashion: Michael Stewart
Design: Brian Archer
Hair: Radio Hair Salon
Make-Up Design: Astrid Kearney assisted by the London School of Makeup LSM Pro team.
Cast:
Rowan, The Mapmaker: Clara Kanter
Neachneohain, the Official: Rosie Middleton
Beira, the Soldier: Sarah Parkin
The Storyteller: Kelly Poukens
EDINBURGH: Rosie Middleton & Sarah Parkin
Ensemble:
Music Director: Ben Smith
Piano: Ben Smith
Flute: Jenni Hogan
Dancers:
Charlie Nayler
Thomas Page
Moses Ward
Actors:
Keith Chilvers
Megan Moran