About a lost box, family mementos and Samuel Beckett
Media
23 April 2020
Lockdown Piano
Improvisation on a theme
17 April 2020
What I know – letter from lockdown
A narrative poem about being on lockdown for Tortoise media
17 March 2019
Et tout ça, Crazy Coqs
Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel
‘Et tout ça,’ (And all that) performed at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel in March 2019. With Peter Michaels (guitar) Tom Smail (drums) Marcus Tilt (accordion) and Loz Garratt (double bass)
10 March 2019
Jewish Book Week – with Alex Clark
King's Place
Voices on the page
07 August 2018
Blue Electric
Tete-a-Tete festival | RADA studios - 7:00 pm
A teenage girl in 1980’s Paris attempts to lead a normal adolescent existence – falling in love, rebelling, searching for her identity – against the backdrop of her volatile artist father’s secret history of war, holocaust and exile.
Music: Tom Smail
Libretto: Alba Arikha
Director: Hugh Hudson
Designer: Laura Albeck
Associate Designer: Sara Stanton
21 June 2018
Blue Electric: how our opera came to life
Composer and Author/Librettist discuss their new opera
11 March 2018
In conversation with Griselda Pollock and Janet Wolff
Jewish Book Week 2018
28 March 2018
Cross-Channel journal, Radio 4
Thoughts about the English Channel: selected for Pick of the Week
26 June 2017
Front Row
BBC Radio 4
With Kirsty Lang
15 May 2017
BBC London: the Jo Good show
Major/Minor and Paris
19 December 2015
The Cultural Frontline
On Hemingway and the Paris attacks
19 March 2015
Notting Hill Unplugged
Book and Kitchen's Notting Hill Unplugged
With Tom Smail and Sagat Guirey
01 October 2015
Radio 4 Book of the Week
August 1,2 2013
Soon
Performed at the Riverside Studios
Opera by Tom Smail, with words by Alba Arikha.
Mezzo: Kate Symonds-Joy
Soprano: Helen-Jane Howells
Tenor: Matt Long
Baritone: George Humphreys
Conductor: Carlos del Cueto
Directed by Rosalind Parker
Set design: Tarka Kings
Narration: Natascha McElhone