Thu, 01 Sept
|The Cockpit Theatre
Edward Lambert's The Burning Question
Director: Jim Osman Design: Alexa Moore Arianna: Rosalind Dobson (soprano) The Pope: Arlene Belli (mezzo-soprano) Ignacio: Daniel Gray Bell (tenor) S. Pietro: Samuel Lom (bass) Piano duet: Susan Norman & Elspeth Wilkes
Time & Location
01 Sept, 20:30 BST
The Cockpit Theatre, The Cockpit, Gateforth St, London NW8 8EH, UK
About the event
Attended by a demonic manservant and an angelic maid, the first female Pope has died. She now wants nothing less than a cosy retirement in paradise, but Someone has other ideas and the elevator going upwards gets stuck. It's a Day of Wrath! What does St Peter, the Caretaker, know? Does he hold the key to the plot? Accompanied by piano duet and a choir of heavenly voices, this is a satire that confronts the ridiculous, the sublime, love, death and comic opera all at the same time.