Catch up with all of the productions from our 12th festival that took place in venues across London. Read the Festival brochure here: https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/on-stage/2018-festival-brochure/
July
18:30-19:10 @ Coal Drops Yard. Hot on the heels of BOHEMERGENCY! and TOSCATASTROPHE! comes MADAME BUTTERFLOP. Hear Tête à Tête massacre another classic, take a magnificent cast and put them through the hell of a shambolic production. ...
18:30-19:10 @ Coal Drops Yard. With her recently released debut album ‘Road Runner’, Ayanna Witter-Johnson is THE definition of eclectic soul, she is a singer, songwriter, cellist who is a rare exception to the rule that classical and alternative...
18:00-18:30 @ RADA Studios. Beam is the story of a young woman discovering her life through opera.
19:00-19:40 @ RADA Studios. Two parts of a series exploring how people lose their voice. How trauma impacts one’s ability to speak. Sing. Utter. Breathe.
20:00-20:40 @ RADA Studio. A mix of narrative cabaret, staged song cycle, and one woman opera, One Art shows us how great art is often wrested from great heartbreak.
21:00-21:50 @ RADA Studios. A woman is drowned on the eve of her wedding. A violin-maker has found something strange. The groom is fraught with more than the usual anxiety. A darkly humorous re-imagining of a Northumbrian murder ballad set to a...
19:00-19:55 @ RADA Studios. Women of the Windrush Tell Their Stories. Produced by Shirley Thompson Music Productions
20:15-21:05 @ RADA Studios. An opera about obsessive fantasies, based on William Wharton’s debut novel. Told through vocal lines based on canary song, and virtuosic physical theatre and trampolining.
21:30-22:05 @ RADA Studios. Love! Death! And a pantomime camel! After extensive audience research, we listed everything people demanded in operas, and forced them all into this show. This hip hop foxtrot operatic sketch comedy show is (technically)...
19:00-20:50 @ The Other Palace. Opera collides with musical theatre and 1920s jazz, with a mechanical, steampunk twist in a new Steampunk Opera, 8!
August
18:30-19:30 @ Coal Drops Yard. Composer and Tête à Tête favourite Errollyn Wallen performs the Errollyn Wallen Songbook, her continually evolving set of Ivor Novello award-winning songs, alongside her band.
20:00-21:00 @ Kings Place. Produced by Nwando Ebizie. What connects a 12th century female polymath from Germany with Haitian Vodou and Neurodiversity?
14:00-15:15 @ 10 Tollgate Drive. Fresh from its sell-out Tokyo run, this site-specific, Anglo-Japanese work invites audiences to become voyeurs as they move freely around a private residence to eavesdrop on small ensembles of singers, a dancer, and...
18:00-19:15 @ 10 Tollgate Drive. Fresh from its sell-out Tokyo run, this site-specific, Anglo-Japanese work invites audiences to become voyeurs as they move freely around a private residence to eavesdrop on small ensembles of singers, a dancer, and...
Short Pop Up Operas performed throughout the Festival in the streets, parks and public spaces of Camden & King’s Cross.
19:00-19:45 @ 5 Pancras Square. It is your moral obligation to attend this summit to encourage the cohesiveness of our society. We will discuss policies meant to improve western altruistic imperialism, on topics such as outsourcing, free trade and...
20:30–21:15 @ 5 Pancras Square. It is your moral obligation to attend this summit to encourage the cohesiveness of our society. We will discuss policies meant to improve western altruistic imperialism, on topics such as outsourcing, free trade and...
14:00-17:00, Tuesday 6th August 2019 So you want (or want to be!) a producer? There are many groups out there wanting to mount exciting and innovative new opera and music theatre or new productions of repertoire favourites - but where is the...
18:00-22:00 @ The Place. Dreams and a Heart is Regina Mendes’ long-running participatory artwork for peace. Each doll is filled with dreams and given a heart, before the maker completes a short mediation, guided by the artist.
19:00-19:55 @ The Place. Be a Doll is an electroacoustic toy opera that follows a woman struggling with perfectionist and submissive conditioning in a world that commands her to be a doll so vigorously that she is unable to determine whether she is...
20:15-21:00 @ The Place. Of Body and Ghost is an ethereal rite of passage through the experience of aging. Movement, text, images, music and song join forces to create a poetic synthesis.
21:20-22:20 @ The Place. 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...
19:00-20:00 @ The Place. Growth of the Silk is an original fairytale about a girl’s misguided wish for long lustrous hair which leaves her ultimately crushed under the weight of the unstoppable growth. The piece features just two performers of...
20:20-21:05 @ The Place. Cross art and cross cultural performance based on the traditional Chinese story of a star-weaving goddess whose curiosity about life below draws her, secretly, down to earth.
21:25-22:15 @ The Place. Once upon a time, fifty years ago, Apollo (the sun-god) was Boss of Everything, while his dim sister (the moon-goddess) was just a cabaret artiste in a seedy nightclub. As the Americans invade the moon in July 1969, events...
19:00-19:30 @ The Place. The eccentric musings of an eight-year-old and her ten stuffed animals come to life in this one-woman chamber opera that toddles between the silly and the surreal.
19:50-20:25 @ The Place. She didn’t choose her husband. He was brutal and coarse. She preferred another, quieter, gentler. He came to her at night. But they couldn’t fight Gwydion’s sorcery. Her Face was of Flowers unites a lyrical contemporary...
20:45-21:45 @ The Place. Synthetica is a fractured sung narrative exploring the Midas touch of our times… so much made possible within the heartbeat of environmental catastrophe.
14:30-15:30 @ Secret Location. Notes on the communal message board. Junk mail. Graffiti. Messages from the inner life of an apartment block, hinting at loneliness, isolation, and troubled communication.
19:30-20:30 @ Secret Location. Notes on the communal message board. Junk mail. Graffiti. Messages from the inner life of an apartment block, hinting at loneliness, isolation, and troubled communication.
10:30-15:30 @ Vale of Health Pond, Hampstead Heath. Join creators Catherine Kontz and Sarah Grange for an anniversary edition of Fleet Footing and walk with them from the spring of the Fleet on Hampstead Heath to its mouth at Blackfriars Bridge...
