where all things are permitted

Co-created, directed and performed with THE oPERA PROJECT INC. 

Director: Nigel Kellaway
Performers: Regina Heilmann, Nigel Kellaway, Andrew Morrish, Peretta Anggerek (countertenor), Michael Bell (piano)
Music: Purcell, Handel, Berg
Lighting Design: Simon Wise
Costume Design: Annemaree Dalziel

Premiered: 19th April 2002 at Performance Space, Sydney
A co-production with Performance Space, Sydney.

While an intense engagement with music is familiar territory for Kellaway’s productions, improvisation as a major element is a new departure and an inspired addition. What improvisation can so successfully do, in the face of the other very structured and often technically demanding performance elements (piano playing, opera singing, text-based theatre), is to undo them. It can rewrite and overwrite – it adds the dash of danger, the unexpected swerve, to performances which otherwise have their set paths to follow from beginning to end. And then there is also, simply, the pleasure of watching the performers create as they go, the thrill of the instant response to the immediacy of their situation.
Clever, unexpected, provocative and captivatingly performed by all, and Kellaway and Heilmann are – as always – riveting performers

Laura Ginters, RealTime, June-July, 2002
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