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2011 Oliver Award winning Musical Director Andrew Charity (La Boheme) brings an international cast of rising opera stars and a chorus of fifteen to a found location in Limehouse, East London for an adaptation of Gian-Carlo Menotti’s Pulitzer Prize winning The Consul (1950), addressing the bureaucracy of immigration against a backdrop of Kafkaesque officialdom. The Secret Consul is the third in a series of site specific performances entitled A Whole World at War from The Wedding Collective. Led by Artistic Director Stephen Tiller, previous work in the site specific trilogy includes Warcrime on a young woman killed by a cluster bomb and staged in the crypt of a bombed church in Holborn, and The Daughter, based on a Palestinian schoolgirl presented at Truman’s Brewery in Brick Lane. First performed in the Schubert Theatre, Philadelphia in 1950 The Consul transferred to Broadway and won creator Gian-Carlo Menotti the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Set in a totalitarian regime in an unnamed European country The Consul tells the story of Magda’s desperate attempts to obtain a visa a leave the country so she can join her husband John, a political dissident.

Cast/Performers

Lesya Aleksyeyeva (Magda), Rita Novikaite, Masami Uehara, Xiaoran Wang

Creatives/Company

Director(s): Stephen Tiller, Naveen Arles (chorus)
Musical Director: Andrew Charity
Design: Tessa Battisiti