Bliss

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T1654963342 (EIF10) Duration 2hrs 40mins. Sung in English with English supertitles. Please note this production contains coarse language and adult themes. It is not recommended for children.Company Opera Australia. Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Elgar Howarth. Director Neil Armfield. Choreographer Kate Champion. Design Brian Thomson. Costume Alice Babidge. Lighting Nigel Levings. Performer Peter Coleman-Wright (Harry Joy). Performer Marlyn Quaife (Betty). Performer Lorina Gore (Honey B). Performer Barry Ryan (Alex). Performer David Corcoran (David). Performer Taryn Fiebig (Lucy). Performer Kanen Breen (Johnny).

2 Sep 10 to 4 Sep 10

Festival Theatre, Edinburgh :: V600 listing details L165349216

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Opera or Operetta :: Peter Carey's sardonic novel Bliss charts the escapades and misadventures of Harry Joy, an advertising executive who, having survived a near-death experience, gets sucked into a Kafkaesque routine of increasing bizarreness. Is he really in hell? In a place where his wife is constantly unfaithful, his son is a drug dealer and his daughter offers sexual favours to pay for her narcotic needs?

Music	Brett Dean
Lyrics	Amanda Holden (based on the novel by Peter Carey)