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Markheim is a man at the end of his tether. What started as a robbery gone wrong has ended in murder - a murder that seems certain to force him to kill once more. And then kill again. Trapped, he is made to confront the circumstances that have brought him to this terrible crisis. Just at that moment a mysterious stranger appears - but it soon becomes clear that this saviour is not all he seems. Is he the devil driving Markheim to further temptation and inevitable damnation? Or an angel come to save him from himself? Loosely based on R L Stevenson s macabre short story Markheim, a haunting study of guilt and redemption, Good Angel Bad Angel is a chamber opera for three voices and four instrumentalists. Good Angel Bad Angel website.

Creatives/Company

Author(s): Lyell Cresswell, Ron Butlin
Company: Hebrides Ensemble