Biopredation
This show centres around our love of books, love of technology, changing times, unchanging themes, possession, belonging, narratives. Brendan Fox, the artist, has been asking people to rip the very last page out of their books, for real, and send them to him to be included in this show. Alongside the display of pages will be a book and a dramatic film scripted and directed by Fox, both compiled out of final sentences. He notes that the overwhelming themes that occur at the end of a story are love and death. A retaliation that I love has has been that the people who (willingly) did tear from their books their endings, have en mass found ways to replace the words they mis-took, some have scanned the page onto their computers, photocopied and tucked it back within the novel, or even hand written the tale onto the back inside cover. How lovely.
Carmen
Carmen is the story, by George Bizet, of a soldier 'seduced by the wiles of the fiery Gypsy' (as Wiki puts it). Culturally iconic, it features in the very first Simpsons series and in an episode of the Animaniacs. But why not head outdoors for once and stop staring at the 'goggle-box' (as my granny puts it), would you. Director Morgan Crowley has put on two previous versions of Carmen, you're in good hands, and assembled a cast of about 10-14 people, all home grown talent, had the girls dressed in flirtatious and arousing costumes and the males in army fatigues and Toreador ensembles. What’s not to love about a rollicking, expressive opera, an absolute classic. Anyone was present at last week’s Opera in the Open, Figaro, and sat happily through bursts of rainclouds followed by the rewards of a dramatic sun-shining finale will surely be re-attending.
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