In Their Own Words – Folkestone
Anna Braithwaite follows up her Normal? festival premiere Brainsong by teaming up with composer Michael Betteridge to present a brand new piece of verbatim musical theatre tackling loss and survival. Setting the stories of two people facing life-changing diagnoses with honesty and humour against a backdrop of classical, pop and folk, these are musical portraits told ‘In Their Own Words’.
“Michael Betteridge’s inventive score parodies Handel’s choruses, medieval courtly dance and even barber shop quartet.”
★★★★★ Financial Times (for his most recent opera Thousand Furs)
Tickets: £8/£6 concessions
Post show discussion (tbc)
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Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Sound and Music’s Composer-Curator scheme and Superbia.
