OperaUpClose: Riders to the Sea

Tue 18 Feb 2025

Studio Theatre

OperaUpClose: Riders to the Sea

Tue 18 Feb 2025

Studio Theatre

A painting of a man with closed eyes and his hand on his head. The colours in the image are blues and greens, as if of the sea.

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OperaUpClose in association with MAST Mayflower Studios present Vaughan Williams’ and JM Synge’s Riders to the Sea, with a new dramatic prologue and chamber orchestration by Michael Betteridge.

A man, full of unshed tears and haunted by the ghosts of his past, finds himself drawn back to the sea, and the memory of his mother, his sisters, and a great loss.

Newly orchestrated for oboe, clarinet and accordion, and with a new dramatic prologue, The Last Bit of the Moon, by Michael Betteridge and ArtfulScribe’s Community Sirens Collective with Antosh Wojcik, Vaughan Williams’ masterful miniature expands into a powerful tale of family, grief and love’s enduring power.

In a production that weaves together live performance, projection and recorded sound, OperaUpClose bring their own inimitable style to a classic with musical storytelling at its most direct and visceral.

This show is captioned throughout, as part of the production design.

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Learn more about the development of prologue The Last Bit of the Moon

At a captioned performance the words are displayed on a screen (or screens), placed near the stage or in the set and can be seen at the same time as they are spoken or sung.

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