Live Performance
19:30-20:30, Tuesday 17th August 2021
Round Chapel, Hackney
Music and Words: Alastair White
“Unquestionably my highlight. Glittering, lyrical, highly logical, yet capricious…a melding of physical and metaphysical, of quantum mechanics and spatial manifestation.” – Mark Berry, Seen and Heard International
Re-opening theatre doors with a grand fashion-opera spectacle, RUNE is a vast cosmological fantasy from the team behind the award-nominated ROBE (“excellent” – BBC Music) and WEAR (“spellbinding” – Boulezian) — featuring an ensemble of three grand pianos, contemporary dance with interactive sculpture, and high fashion by Ka Wa Key.
On a planet where history is forbidden, a young girl dares to tell her story. A voyage across galaxies and millennia, hers is a tale of the archipelagos of Khye-rell and their matterwork, through transdimensional canals and sealanes to the RUNE of the universe’s origin. This song, her story — through the very act of being told — will have consequences beyond imagining…
The interactive broadcast will include a Q&A with the creative team. You can find a libretto for RUNE here.
Supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland, the Hope Scott Trust, the Marchus Trust, the Royal Musical Association, the RVW Trust and the Sarah Caple Scholarship.
https://vimeo.com/637874815
Age range: All ages, but mostly adults.
In a festival of new work, please note that shows can often overrun.
Produced by UU Studios
Venue: Round Chapel, 1D Glenarm Rd, London E5 0LY
Audiences will be socially distanced and mask-wearing encouraged.
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If you would like to help Tête à Tête and the artists creating this show, take a look at this.
Kes’Cha’Au: Patricia Auchterlonie
Khye-Rell: Simone Ibbett-Brown
Music Director: Ben Smith
Piano: Joseph Havlat
Piano: Siwan Rhys
Piano: Ben Smith
Dancers:
Ryan Appiah-Sarpong
Max Gershon
Shakeel Kimotho
Thomas Page
Words and Music: Alastair White
Director: Gemma A. Williams
Director: Jarno Leppanen
Fashion: Ka Wa Key
Sculpture: Sid the Salmon
Hair: Maria Kovacs, Readytowearhairdressing
Assisted by: John Harte, Chris Harris-Gibbs and Evelina Lundgren
Makeup: Michelle Strain, AOFMPro, using Dermalogica
Assisted by: Alina Antofe, Laura Hahnel, Matilda Jose and Richa Khatana
Kes’Cha’Au: Patricia Auchterlonie
Khye-Rell: Simone Ibbett-Brown
Music Director: Ben Smith
Piano: Joseph Havlat
Piano: Siwan Rhys
Piano: Ben Smith
Dancers:
Ryan Appiah-Sarpong
Max Gershon
Shakeel Kimotho
Thomas Page
Words and Music: Alastair White
Director: Gemma A. Williams
Director: Jarno Leppanen
Fashion: Ka Wa Key
Sculpture: Sid the Salmon
Hair: Maria Kovacs, Readytowearhairdressing
Assisted by: John Harte, Chris Harris-Gibbs and Evelina Lundgren
Makeup: Michelle Strain, AOFMPro, using Dermalogica
Assisted by: Alina Antofe, Laura Hahnel, Matilda Jose and Richa Khatana