Name: The Mother
Start: 2018-04-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-04-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: POSK

Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Loré Lixenberg

The Mother

Countertenor

James Hall

Leon

Lindsay Bramley

Dorothea

Baritone

Geoffrey Dolton

Father

Soprano

Rebecca Bottone

Sophia

Tenor

Andrew Dickinson

Academic

De Proud

Daniel Norman

Theatre Owner

Modesta

Conductor

Jamie Man

Stage director

Frederic Wake-Walker

Lighting designer

Sylwester Łuczak

Orchestra

CHROMA

Mahogany Opera Group

London

United Kingdom

POSK

The Mother Osborn

Approved

A mother and a son, a son and a mother. Things had to be this way and couldn’t be another.
Leon dreams of changing the world with his radical philosophy but the explosive, suffocating, mutually destructive relationship he has with his mother leaves little time for anything or anyone else.

The Mother is an adaptation of the absurdist play Matka by Polish writer Witkacy (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz). Indebted to Eastern European theatre, it is a bitingly satirical and explosive response to the traditions of opera. Osborn plunges the audience into an anarchic, surrealist world through taut, intense music that draws on Weill, Birtwistle, and Romitelli, alongside mainstream pop influences.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble