FEAST at Wilton's Music Hall

15/09/2023

https://www.theartsdesk.com/opera/first-person-mezzo-stephanie-wake-edwards-open-dialogue-and-shared-goals-new-show-feast

“Do you actually speak like that?” was the first thing a senior colleague said to me during my initial week at a prestigious UK opera house. I’ve always had a tricky time understanding who I really am.

14/09/2023

Simone has dysautonomia and has written a piece about the pressures of fitting in with other people’s expectations; the difficulties and joys of learning to advocate for our needs, to put our health first, to be our true selves.

FEAST is on at London’s iconic Wilton’s Music Hall 15-16 September. The team is majority disabled/neurodiverse (although not all out), and would love to make the piece accessible to people who may feel most seen by the work - those in our communities.

PoTS UK subscribers and followers are able to purchase tickets for £5 by using the code FEAST5 when booking - https://www.wiltons.org.uk/whatson/831-feast

WARNING - Contains scenes of mild horror and strong language.

FEAST at Wilton's Music Hall

14/09/2023

🍎 IT’S TOMORROW 🍎



🌟 Creative team 🌟

Story 🖊️ - Stephanie Wake-Edwards Simone Ibbett-Brown

New music 🎵 - Ben Comeau
Music director 🎼 - André Callegaro
Stage director, new text ✍️- Simone Ibbett-Brown
Dramaturg 🎭 - Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong

Cast
Jess - Stephanie Wake-Edwards

(In order of hearing)
Xander - Joseph Black
Patrick - Andy Bewley
Richmond - Joey Akubeze chidikbeze
Hanna - Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong

Tickets at link in bio

14/09/2023

✨ Rep Reveal ✨

Errollyn Wallen
(B.1958)

Wallen is a multi award-winning Belize-born British composer and performer. Her prolific output includes twenty-two operas and a large catalogue of orchestral, chamber and vocal works which are performed and broadcast throughout the world. She was the first black woman to have a work featured in the Proms and the first woman to receive an Ivor Novello award for Classical Music for her body of work. Errollyn composed for the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games 2012, for the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees, a specially commissioned song for the climate change conference, COP 26, 2021, and a re-imagining of Jerusalem for BBC’s Last Night of the Proms 2020. She is one of the top 20 most performed living composers of classical music in the world.

13/09/2023

EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT📣

We will be performing excerpts and promoting FEAST on in tune, THIS Thursday 14th at 5pm with Sean Rafferty!

📻 Please do tune in and join Steph (Jessica), André (MD) and Simone (Writer/Director) for a little amuse bouche of our exciting new piece of theatre😉 🍱

12/09/2023

🍏 3 DAYS TO GO 🍏

Book your tickets now. Or I’ll scream.

11/09/2023

✨ Rep Reveal ✨

Shirley Joy Thompson
(B.1958)

An English composer, conductor, and violinist of Jamaican descent. Her output as a composer encompasses symphonies, ballets, operas, concertos, and other works for ensembles, as well as music for TV, film, and theatre. Also an academic, she is currently Professor of Music at the University of Westminster. In the 2019 New Year Honours she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Music.

11/09/2023

Rehearsal snaps 🫰

10/09/2023

🍏 5 DAYS TO GO 🍏

Book your tickets now

https://wiltons.org.uk/whatson/831-

09/09/2023

✨ Rep Reveal ✨

Michel Jean Legrand
(1932-2019)

Legrand was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores, in addition to many songs. His scores for two of the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), earned Legrand his first Academy Award nominations. Legrand won his first Oscar for the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968),and additional Oscars for Summer of '42 (1971) and Barbra Streisand's Yentl (1983).

08/09/2023

Tickets here:

https://www.wiltons.org.uk/whatson/831-feast

07/09/2023

✨ Rep Reveal ✨

Laura Mvula
(B.1986)

Mvula grew up in the suburbs of Birmingham, where she was raised by her mother (who was from Saint Kitts) and father (who was from Jamaica).
She is a soulful vocalist known for her inventive, atmospheric mix of R&B, jazz, classical, and pop. She broke out in 2013 with her debut album, Sing to the Moon. She has recorded 3 solo studio albums, and is an Ivor-Novello award winner.