Mara Carlyle, Oliver Coates and John Reid are performing mine and Toby Litt's latest song cycle, 'Life Cycle' at 7:45pm at Assembly Rooms, Opera North this friday 27th May. Here's what the Eastern Daily Press said about the latest performance at the N&N festival in Norwich:
"Original music with haunting words chimes with mood; captures time, emotion and imagination. We have all been born, but only women have experienced childbirth.
Built round a song cycle, it was an evolving work without finite narrative, but giving us glimpses of being a mother. Toby Litt’s words and Emily Hall’s music dovetailed to create a succession of song fragments that told their own story.
‘There used to be a woman in this body, not just milk and carrying”, spoke volumes. It was Mara Carlyle’s versatile and beautiful singing that breathed life into the lyrics.
Lightmap provided both ethereal and gaunt images, projected onto cupboards. Put like that, it sounds strange. It wasn’t . It was life reflected."
There are still tickets going: http://www.operanorth.co.uk/events/performance-life-cycle/
