Events

27/11/2020-31/11/202019:30:01

Blue Electric: an opera

The Playground Theatre - 7:30 pm

Music: Tom Smail
Libretto: Alba Arikha
Directed by Orpha Phelan

17 March 201919:00:00

Et tout ça: an evening of French songs

Brasserie Zedel, London - 7:00 pm

With Peter Michaels – guitar, Tom Smail – drums, Marcus Tilt – accordion, Loz Garratt – double bass.

10 March 201912:30:00

Jewish book week

King's Place, London - 12:30 pm

with Alex Clark

19 February 201918:07:10

Shakespeare & co

Shakespeare & co - Paris - 6:07 pm

With author Rupert Thomson

10 October 201819:00:00

Waterstone’s Crouch End

Waterstone's Crouch End - 7:00 pm

Reading from ‘Where to find me’ and Q&A

07 October 201820:00:00

Literary live

Hampstead and Highgate Festival - 8:00 pm

Reading

07 August 201819:00:00

Blue Electric: the opera

RADA Studios, 16 Chenies St, London - 7:00 pm

Produced by Tom Smail and Alba Arikha
Paris, 1980’s. A rebellious adolescent. Holocaust and exile. Cafés and nightclubs, shifty boyfriends and broken friendships, BLUE ELECTRIC charts a young woman’s search for identity in the shadow of her artist father’s hidden history. Based on the acclaimed memoir Major/Minor and directed by Academy Award winner Hugh Hudson, this opera explores the effects of trauma on family life. With a powerful contemporary score, this is a universal story of loss, love and what it means to be alive.

06 July 2017

Words and music: French songs and a reading of Major/Minor

Book and Kitchen

with Tom Smail and Peter Michaels

19 March 201519:00:00

Notting Hill Unplugged

Book and Kitchen - 7:00 pm

An evening of French songs, with Sagat Guirey and Tom Smail

29 October 201319:30:00

Reading from Soon

Queen's Park bookshop - 7:30 pm

joint reading with Harry Eyres

16 September 201320:00:00

Cabaret Futura

Paradise by way of Kensal Green - 8:00 pm

Poetry reading at the Cabaret Futura

01 August 201319:50:00

Opera premiere: SOON

Riverside Studios - 7:50 pm

tête a tête festival

words: Alba Arikha, music: Tom Smail

19 June 201318:00:00

Te lo dirò un altra volta

Feltrinelli Bookshop, Florence - 6:00 pm

Presentation of ‘Te lo dirò un altra volta’ (Major/Minor) with Benedetta Cibrario

14 May 201219:00:00

Upper Wimpole Street Literary Salon: “Writing Family Memoir”

28 Camden Hill Gate, London W8 7QH - 7:00 pm

Speakers: Nancy K. Miller, Andrea Stuart, Alba Arikha
Jewish ancestors escaping pogroms in turn-of-the century Russia, white plantation slave owners and black slaves in 17th century Barbados, coming of age in the literary-artistic milieu of 1980s Paris. Three authors discuss the challenges involved in their recently completed family memoirs.

24 September 201121:00:00

Concert at le Theatre de la Vieille Grille (Paris)

Paris - 9:00 pm

Gabriel, performed at the Theatre de la Vieille Grille. Musicians: Alba piano, Sagat Guirey: Guitar, Marcus Tilt: Accordion, Tom Smail: Drums, Loz Garratt: Double bass