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The Shape of the Earth
by Jack Symonds & Pierce Wilcox
by Jack Symonds & Pierce Wilcox
La voix humaine
by Francis Poulenc & Jean Cocteau
by Francis Poulenc & Jean Cocteau
Quatre instants
by Kaija Saariaho & Amin Maalouf
by Kaija Saariaho & Amin Maalouf
A new Australian work, a major statement by a leading living international composer and a radical interpretation of a 20th century classic: experience SCO’s aesthetic mission in a single evening.
Poulenc’s classic La voix humaine is a shattering portrait of lost love – as heard through only one side of a dramatic phone call. Celeste Lazarenko (The Rape of Lucretia) will inhabit this woman with her characteristic emotional truth. Kaija Saariaho’s Quatre instants also maps the terrain of intoxicated passion, but from a 21st century female perspective: an ocean of sound unleashed from the rich voice of Emily Edmonds (Owen Wingrave, His Music Burns).
Directed together by Clemence Williams (Breaking Glass), these vivid monodramas of desire will be complemented by Jack Symonds’s The Shape of the Earth starring Mitchell Riley and directed by Alexander Berlage (Future Remains). Described by the SMH as “a hugely impressive co-creation… an outstanding tour-de-force of nuanced vocal flexibility, dissembling characterisation and physical theatre” in its one-off showing in 2018’s Resonant Bodies Festival, this contemporary gloss on Patrick White’s Voss pulls apart the voice to breaking point, before reconstructing an inner landscape of glowing intensity.
Three voices pushed to their limits; three bodies living extraordinary stories.
Directors
Alexander Berlage & Clemence Williams
Alexander Berlage & Clemence Williams
Lighting Design
Alexander Berlage
Alexander Berlage
Sound Design
Benjamin Carey
Benjamin Carey
Emily Edmonds
Celeste Lazarenko
Mitchell Riley
Jack Symonds
Gallery
Dates
29 September –
7 October 2023
VENUE
Carriageworks
Bay 20
245 Wilson St Eveleigh NSW 2016
duration
2 hours & 10 minutes, including one 20 minute interval
TICKET prices
Available from Carriageworks in mid-2023
Keep in touch
General Inquiries
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