Performance

Venue	Arcola
	Other spaces: Arcola Tent (2 Ashwin Street)
Town	Inner London
County	Greater London
From	26th August 2016
To	27th August 2016
When	19:30
What is currently on at Arcola (V1422226940)

The Dowager's Oyster

T9263320
Cynthia and her aged mother, the Dowager, are holidaying on the French island of Oleron. Cynthia's fiance can't join them - he's on his own journey of discovery with a secret gay lover in Morocco. But when Cynthia and Dowager bump into old friends, gossip abounds and confusion ensues. It isn't long before events are spiralling out of all control...

Music	Louis Mander
Lyrics	Jack Cherry

Archive :: production:T9263320, opera or operetta:S1741619603, venue:V1422226940

Production details

Gilbert and Sullivan meets Agatha Christie in this new, full-length operetta; a murder-mystery farce set in the roaring 1920s. Part of Grimeborn

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Company

Company	Belsize Opera
Director	Jack Cherry
Musical Director	Louis Mander
Design	Anna Draftmier
Costume	Anna Driftmier
Lighting	Jessica Bernberg
Performer	Claire Barnett Jones (Marta)
Performer	Aidan Coburn (Freddy)
Performer	Julian Debreuil (Dr Gibaud)
Performer	Tom Morss (Christopher)
Performer	Caroline Kennedy (Genevieve)
Performer	Melanie Lodge (The Dowager)
Performer	Henry Neill (Karl)
Performer	Jane Wilkinson (Cynthia)

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