Bluebeard’s Castle
Porchester Hall - August 2021
Bluebeard is unravelling. He’s losing perspective, and questioning his sense of self. As each door in his castle is opened, a new aspect of his tortured soul is revealed - until at last we see what the seventh door is hiding…
Cast:
Simon Wilding
Alexandra Long
Charlotte Osborn
Alice Usher
Katherine MacRae
Carmine de Amicis
Creative Team:
Director - Julia Mintzer
Musical Director/Conductor - Thomas Payne
Choreographer/Associate Director - Carmine de Amicis
Designer - Charles Ogilvie
Lighting Designer - Will Alder
Arranger - Leon Haxby
Animation Supervisor - Dev Bye-A-Jee
Make-up Artist - Ian Massa-Harris
Production Manager - Ryan Nicholls
Stage Manager & Assistant Director - Ben Anderson
Assistant Conductor - Herman Ringer
Répétiteur - Thomas Ang
Production Assistant - Tilly Penn
Poster Design - Max Dabbs
Artistic Director - Béatrice de Larragoïti
Co-Producers - Alice Usher & Charlotte Osborn
Orchestra
Thomas Ang - Organ
The Halcyon Quartet:
Millie Ashton - Violin I
Leidy Sinclair - Violin II
Nathalie Green-Buckley - Viola
HeeYeon Cho - Violincello
Animators (Ravensbourne University)
Virginia Anyaele
Klaudia Grabczak
Dev Bye-A-Jee
Vincent Sautter
Tony Tyler
Oliver O’Keefe
Production Photographer - Nick Rutter & QVT Photography
Reviews
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"It is powerfully and imaginatively lit by Will Alder, with great washes of red and purple manifesting something both sumptuous and threatening"