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Company Chordelia presents |
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Les Amoureux
* CANCELLED * |
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Date:
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Wednesday 24th
March 2010 |
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Time:
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7.30pm |
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Tickets: |
£12.00 |
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Venue: |
Auditorium |
In
her only garment, a faded, tattered once-wedding dress with sunglasses
to shield her from light, the Countess, neither alive nor dead, is a
reluctant huntress, condemned forever to slake a thirst that will not
let her rest. She turns over a tarot card. For the first time ever,
she has drawn Les Amoureux. Her keeper and the shadows of her domain
bear witness to the arrival of the handsome young soldier...
Company Chordelia’s production of Les Amoureux is based around Angela
Carter's story The Lady of The House of Love which has inspired the
idea of creating a visceral, theatrical equivalent to Carter’s
incredible imagery. This is a story of love, life and death, a twisted
Sleeping Beauty with the faded opulent feel of a gothic fantasy with a
strong Eastern European quality. Combining dance and physical theatre
with opera, voice and design, Les Amoureux is a sensual tale of purity
and damage. Les Amoureux creates a world where time stops and never
ends.
Not suitable for under 12's
· Les
Amoureux fuses together dance, theatre and opera
· Directed
and Choreographed by Chordelia's Artistic Director, Kally
Lloyd-Jones. Associate Director is actor, Linda Duncan McLaughlin.
Both will perform in the piece too.
· Kally Lloyd
Jones directed Katya Kabanova for Scottish Opera and was Movement
Director/Choreographer for the Opera's Die Fledermaus, Cinderella,
Dream Angus, A Night At The Chinese Opera, Two Widows, The Secret
Marriage and most recently The Love Of Three Oranges and War and
Peace for the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
· Opera
Singer Damian Thantrey has
premiered a number of song works, including two world premieres with
Paragon Ensemble. He is currently singing in A Little Night Music
at The Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris and recently sang in Scottish
Opera's Die Fledermaus and A Night at the Chinese Opera.
· Company
Chordelia produces high calibre and innovative performance work
which is truly accessible to a general, as well as an established
dance audience
· Suitable
for children aged 12 years and upwards
· The last
tour of Les Amoureux won critical acclaim with The Herald, Metro and
Big Issue giving it a four-star review.
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