A event on Sunday 20th October. The event starts at 15:00.
Welcome to Backstage! Here, you will find the 'Ladies of the Chorus' getting ready for opening night of a small-scale adaptation of Verdi's Macbetto.
If you're a regular opera-goer in this region, you'll have seen these three before as Cigarette Girls, Geishas, and Nuns - this time, they are the Witches!*
Despite their numerous appearances over the years, would you recognise them out on the high street? Or know their names if you ever met them? Who really are the people you only seem to see 'upstage'?
Written by and starring Bridget Hardy, Penny Rossano and Samantha Houston, this brand new play is (possibly) the world’s first Sit-Op-Com, or ‘Situation Operatic Comedy’! Set in the theatre broom cupboard, next to the building’s only toilet, this story draws on the ladies’ 20 years+ in the opera industry, charting the ups and downs of their journeys over one-act (55 minutes) with humour, heart, and a sprinkling of live opera singing.
*There are only 3 Witches due to budgetary constraints.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “this will make a great diversion at festivals of drama and indeed music and opera. Bis!” Bath Fringe 2024
“I was awed by your beautiful singing voices!” Sarah Thurstan, Steering Group of Folkestone Live! 2024
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
If you're a regular opera-goer in this region, you'll have seen these three before as Cigarette Girls, Geishas, and Nuns - this time, they are the Witches!*
Despite their numerous appearances over the years, would you recognise them out on the high street? Or know their names if you ever met them? Who really are the people you only seem to see 'upstage'?
Written by and starring Bridget Hardy, Penny Rossano and Samantha Houston, this brand new play is (possibly) the world’s first Sit-Op-Com, or ‘Situation Operatic Comedy’! Set in the theatre broom cupboard, next to the building’s only toilet, this story draws on the ladies’ 20 years+ in the opera industry, charting the ups and downs of their journeys over one-act (55 minutes) with humour, heart, and a sprinkling of live opera singing.
*There are only 3 Witches due to budgetary constraints.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “this will make a great diversion at festivals of drama and indeed music and opera. Bis!” Bath Fringe 2024
“I was awed by your beautiful singing voices!” Sarah Thurstan, Steering Group of Folkestone Live! 2024
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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