Grimeborn

History

Past performances

2018

2017

2015

2014

2012

2010

2009

• The Savage & The Island, Composed, written and performed by the Arcola Youth Project under the guidance of Jenifer Toksvig and Nick Sutton.Disappeared, Produced by: The Theory of Everything, Devised and directed by: Pia Furtado and members of the cast, featuring traditional gypsy music Inspired by and featuring Janáček's song cycle.The Work of Art by Conor Mitchell and Jenifer ToksvigGoodbye Barcelona, Produced by: Arcola Theatre, Composer: KS Lewkowicz, Playwright: Judith Johnson, Director: Karen RabinowitzWhy Are Clowns?, Produced by: L'Oiseau Chante, Composer: Ewen Moore, Director: Aaron PatersonPresenting... The News, Produced by: Size Zero Music Theatre, Composer & director: Laura Jayne BowlerDante by Peter Longworth, Director: Holly McBrideThe Wonderful Thing About Lizards by Lucy Smith, Director: Toria BanksAbraham and Isaac, Produced by: Metta Theatre, Composer: Benjamin Britten, Director: Poppy Burton-MorganPig, Greed ; Cinderella(Stephen Oliver Produced by: Bitesize Opera, Director: Toria BanksJephtha by Handel, Director: Ralph Bridle, Conductor: Wolfgang KostnerStolen Voices by Neyire Ashworth, Director & Co-devisor: Kath BurlinsonLa Voix Humaine, Produced by: Renée Salewski & Flat Earth Theatre, Composer: Francis Poulenc, Librettist: Jean Cocteau, Director: Robin Norton-HaleA Shropshire Lad, Produced by: Pst! Productions, Cast: Peter Shipman, Director: Jan-Willem van den BoschThe Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti, Director: Nina Brazier, Designer: Polly Webb-Wilson, Costumes: Giulia ScrimieriThe Singing Bone/Domestic, Produced by: The Stephen Crowe Ensemble, Composer: Stephen Crowe, Directors: Seonaid Goody and Stephen CroweThe Woodcutter's Daughter, Produced by: Eclectic Opera, Composer: Richard Cartmale, Librettist: Buffy Sharpe, Cast: Belinda Evans, Glenn Tweedie, Peter ShipmanSongs of Alchemy, Produced by: Eclectic Opera, Composer: Kirsten Morrison, Director: Jan-Willem van den BoschGrimethorpe Race Presented by: Shared Property Theatre Company Directors: Lizzie Newman and Rachel Parish, Designer: Lucy Sierra, Scenic Artist: Zoe ParsonsThe Spoils, Produced by: Shady Dolls Theatre Company, Composer: Paul Englishby, Director: Steven DykesMusic Theatre Now - a cabaret evening dedicated to new musical theatre writing. Featured Composers: Conor Mitchell, Adam Guettel, Raymond Yiu, Ricky Ian Gordon, Tim Saward, Matt Print Director: Alex Sutton, Musical Direction: Leigh Thompson, Cast: Clare Burt and the London Show ChoirFigaro - The Loyal Subject, Produced by: Grimeborn Opera, Composers: Mozart, Rossini, Milhaud, Adaptator & director: Barnaby RayfieldWhy Don't You Just Sing Jazz?, Produced by: Opera in Colour, Writer & director: Roger Mortimer-Smith, Devised and produced by: Nadine Mortimer-Smith, Musical Direction: Peter CrockfordHothouse, Directed by: Sophie Austin, Musical Direction: Jamie Fagg, Produced by: Kas Darley and Sophie Austin

2008

• Astyanax - by Waterfield & Burke
• A Little Chamber Music - based on the work by Hindemith
• The Boy Who Said Yes by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill; musical director: Timothy Burke; director: Alex SuttonThe Girl Who Liked to be Thrown Around - performed by Madestrange Opera; composer: Michael Oliva; text: Michael Oliva and Deepak KalhaThe Bacchae - composer/librettist/musical & artistic director: Alexis Pope; soprano: Tatjana Kiliani; tenor: Emmanuel Fort; bass: Andrew Young; First Bacchae: Sibylla Meienberg
• Stabat Mater - adapted by Buffy Sharpe from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater; performed by Eclectic Opera; director: Poppy Burton-Morgan; soprano: Anna Gregory; countertenor: Peter Shipman; actress: Sarah Paul
• Holoray Holiday - book and lyrics: Rebecca and Sharon Nassauer; composer: Sharon Nassauer; director: Michael Alvarez; musical director: Candida Caldicot

2007

• Nosferatu
• Opera Cabaret
• The Tales of Hoffmann - based on Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann
• Dichterliebe - composed by Robert Schumann to poetry by Heinrich Heine
• Devils Drum
• Arianna a Naxos - based on Haydn's cantata of the same name
• Visions of 7 – conceived and composed by Joanna Foster, performed by 'Anima' with Javier Carmona on percussion.
• Vice - jazz opera based on The Revenger's Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur. Written by Jools Scott and Sue Curtis. Directed by Sue Curtis.
• The Universal Will to Self-Destruct
• Flood - composed & written by Kirsten Morrison and Buffy Sharpe. Performed by Kirsten Morrison Soprano, Siobhan Mooney Mezzo Soprano and Oliver Gibbs Baritone Visuals by Franny Armstrong.
• Pierre - adapted by composer Richard Beaudoin, conducted by Christopher Ward, directed by Andrew Steggall, and played by Constantine Finehouse. The cast included Joseph Kaiser,
• Persephone - a masque in the making. Words by Simon Rae, music by Sue Casson. Amongst the performers Felix Kemp and Sue Casson.Fountain Sealed - by Nathan Williamson, Thomas Walton and James Methven.