“Lost in Transit” cast members… clockwise, from left, Jolene, Rachel, Henry and Remus. Photo: Martin Ollman.
“LOST in Transit” is billed as Canberra’s very first all transgender original musical. Written by and starring a local gender-diverse cast who traverse the wacky experiences of being trans and gender diverse, it was created by Tuggeranong Arts Centre in collaboration with performance artist and community builder Kat Reed (recently named 2021 Young Canberra Citizen of the Year) and artist and vocal coach Dianna Nixon from Wild Voices Music Theatre. At Tuggeranong Arts Centre, April 29-May 1. Bookings here.
JOE Woodward’s Shadow House PITS is presenting a reading of a partly surreal tragedy, “And Beyond the Violence”, a hybrid theatre/cinema work which may one day transform into a radio work. Woodward invites people to come along and witness some of Canberra’s performers and theatre identities and international performers zooming in. At Smith’s Alternat
Music / “La Clemenza di Tito”, by Mozart, National Opera. At Llewellyn Hall until April 17. Reviewed by
ROB KENNEDY.
UNDER its new name of the National Opera, performing one of Mozart’s last operas, “La Clemenza di Tito”, the company stepped out for 2021 in its first performance of this dramatic and compelling work.
Directed by Peter Coleman-Wright, with conductor, Dane Lam, chorus master, Tobias Cole, costumes, Fiona Victoria Hopkins and lighting, Mark Dyson with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra.
The singers were Bradley Daley as Tito, Catherine Carby as Sesto, Helena Dix as Vitellia, Eleanor Greenwood as Annio, Mikayla Tate as Servilia and Andrew Collis as Publio.
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Eleanor Greenwood as Annio, one of the two “pants” roles in the opera.
THE National Opera bursts into being this weekend with Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito”, billed as a story of friendship and forgiveness triumphing over jealousy and violence. Former ANU School of Music graduates, mezzo-sopranos Eleanor Greenwood and Catherine Carby, have flown back to Australia to join the cast of top singers assembled by director Peter Coleman-Wright. Toby Cole is chorus master, while rising conductor Leonard Weiss is assisting star conductor Dane Lam. Llewellyn Hall, April 10, 13,15, 17, book here.
Patsy Hely, Black Mountain views with fallen tree. Slipcast porcelain underglaze colour. . Photo: Brenton McGeachie.