AusStage

Event

Christina's World

Venue

The Queen's Theatre, Adelaide, SA

First Date

2 August 2019

Last Date

3 August 2019

Dates Estimated

Status

Professional

World Premiere

Description

Christina, in middle age, is obsessed by a desire to return to the house of her youth and the imagination she created there – a kind of second Eden of lost childhood and the Pastoral Dream. She succeeds in conjuring her young self, a hesitant and idealistic dream figure who gradually takes on the characteristics of a ‘real’ Christina – a contradictory, perverse, tragi-comic adolescent with a fierce egocentric life of her own.

Description Source

Website

Primary Genre

Music Theatre

Secondary Genre

Opera

Organisations

The State Opera of South Australia, Production Company
The State Opera of South Australia, Presenting Company
Australia Council for the Arts, Grant Body
Arts SA, Grant Body

Contributors

Name	Function	Notes
Elizabeth Campbell	Actor and Singer	Middle Aged Christina
Adam Goodburn	Actor and Singer	Harry
Nick Jones	Actor and Singer	Tom, the lover/The Son
Charlotte Kelso	Actor and Singer	Young Christina/The daughter
Joshua Rowe	Actor and Singer	Dick, the Father/The Husband
Ross Edwards	Composer
Warwick Stengards	Conductor
Christina Logan-Bell	Designer
Nicholas Cannon	Director
Mark Oates	Director, Assistant
Dorothy Hewett	Librettist
Ben Flett	Lighting Designer
Mark Fisher	Mechanist
Ben Flett	Sound Designer
Emily Barraclough	Stage Manager
Penelope Cashman