Details

Through the two productions, Confined Human Condition enters the minds of two women left helpless, one from grief and the other from feeling the agony of love. The evening focuses on how the two women react and experience many emotions from anger to desire, from pain to lust and from despair to hope. Phillip Neil Martin's new work for voice and electronics, The Terror of Love, is inspired by Saint Teresa of Ávila and scored for mezzo soprano Lore Lixenberg, well known for creating her role in Jerry Springer - The Opera. A provocative commission, the piece moves through an ecstatic state inside the mind of a woman who has chosen to suffer for love. The Baghdad Monologue is a piece of music theatre written for soprano and computer that premiered in 2007. Performed by Scottish soprano Frances M Lynch, the text is tightly woven with the rhythmic structure provided by the electro-acoustic score. It explores a familiar situation that is as old as civilisation: the forceful intervention of the strong and the powerful to 'protect' and 'liberate' the weak. Confined Human Condition is a co production with the Women's Arts International Festival at the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal.

Creatives/Company

Company: Theatre Cryptic
Director: Cathie Boyd
Music(s): Alejandro Vinao, Phillip Neil Martin