Name: The Unravelling Fantasia of Miss H.
Start: 2022-09-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-09-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Arcola Theatre

Organization

Grimeborn Opera Festival

Sound designer

Red Gray

Sarah Nicholls

Dramaturge

Zoe Bouras

Lighting designer

Kristina Hjelm

Costume designer

Rosie Whitting

Movement director

Kate Webster

Artistic Director

Inside Out Piano

Soprano

Mary Frances Heaton

Singer

Mary Matthewson

Overseer

Nurse

Pianist

English

The Unravelling Fantasia of Miss H.

London

United Kingdom

Arcola Theatre

Studio 1

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It is 1837 and Mary has been arrested for a breach of the peace. She is an outspoken woman and the authorities of Doncaster are confounded. They sentence Mary to a lifetime confinement in Wakefield Asylum.
The Unravelling Fantasia of Miss H. is a poetic portrayal of a Victorian woman imprisoned by a society intent on control.
Mary Frances Heaton’s tale is told through her own words, her defiant protests stitched into embroidered samplers and discovered in the asylum years later.
Mary’s struggle to hold on to her identity and reach the outside world speaks across the years, her outrage at a corrupt system urging us to ask ‘How much have things have really changed?’
This contemporary opera is a new composition by soprano Red Gray and Sarah Nicolls with her inside-out piano.

The Unravelling Fantasia of Miss H. by Gray, Red, From (2022/2022), Arcola Theatre, London, United Kingdom

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