Events

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

Where to find me: in conversation with Suzi Feay

Writing fiction and why it matters

interviewed by Suzi Feay

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

with Alex Clark

With author Rupert Thomson

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

Reading

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.

In conversation with Thomas Beller

Trauma, womanhood and memoir

In conversation with Janet Wolff

Reading and discussing Major/Minor