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Taking as its starting point the silent film The Hands of Orlac (1924), this new show sees Orlac, a concert pianist, lose his hands in an accident. A medical transplantation of his hands is completely successful, but the nightmare really begins when Orlac is unknowingly given the hands of an executed murderer. Operation Orlac is an operatic theatre remake of this Grand Guignol-esque classic horror and in Thomas Desi's intimate version gestures and facial expressions are unmasked as theatrical conventions, creating the authentic mood of the expressionist classic of the silent screen. Orlac's terrifying story is told fusing theatre with opera, drawing on stylised film and gesture as you, the audience, are placed quite literally in the centre of the action.

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2009 (1 listings)