In partnership with music ensemble CarmenCo, The Telling presents a fun-filled music and theatre show, 'Creating Carmen', which explores the creation of Prosper Merimée's famous novella that inspired Georges Bizet's opera. The play features the writer's struggle with his work, Carmen's arrival to disrupt his world, and the dynamic between creator and creation.
In partnership with music ensemble Carmen Co, theatre and music company The Telling presents a fun-filled music and theatre show, Creating Carmen , by award-winning playwright Clare Norburn and BAFTA-nominated director Nicholas Renton which will tour the UK, stopping at Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Friday, 7 March.
The playwright, Clare Norburn, won the Colin Skipp Memorial Cup at the Arts Richmond Radio Playwriting Competition in 2023 for her radio play ‘The End. Roll Credits’, about TV playwright Dennis Potter’s famous TV interview with Melvyn Bragg. Since 2010, Norburn has been developing a new genre of ‘concertplays’ which seamlessly combine music and theatre.
Prosper Mérimée was a real iconoclast. The play opens with him in a midlife crisis, struggling with a new genre, writing what would become his best-known work - the novella, Carmen. Norburn adds: “Mérimée’s struggle resonated with my own work on the alchemical collision between music and theatre. As I researched him, what astonished me was how extraordinarily modern he was. He was a revolutionary - the Brecht of his day.
MUSICAL THEATRE OPERA CARMEN PROSPER MERIMÉE CLARE NORBURN NICHOLAS RENTON CARMENCO
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