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Names of the Dead |
"There have been 1,685 coalition troop deaths, 1,512 Americans, 86 Britons, eight Bulgarians, one Dane, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Hungarian, 20 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 17 Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of March 10 2005." CNN website, 14 March 2005
Civilians reported killed: 16,231-18,509
Iraq Body Count, 14 March 2005
"The death toll associated with the invasion and occupation of Iraq is probably about 100,000 people, and may be much higher." The Lancet, October 2004
"There is no official count of the number of deaths among Iraq's military, civilians and insurgents." Reuters, February 2005
A collaboration between Stephen McNeff, Adey Grummet, The Duke Quartet, Mark Espiner, Mark Anstee, Tom Morris, Guy Hoare and Kate McGrath.
Commissioned by and developed at BAC.
Composer
Stephen McNeff
Director
Mark Espiner
Performers
The Duke Quartet (Louisa Fuller, Sophie Harris,
Rick Koster, and John Metcalfe)
and
Adey Grummet, Clare McCaldin, Mhairi Ellis and Rebecca Lodge (of Curate’s
Egg)
Designer
Mark Anstee
Lighting design
Guy Hoare
Production manager
Phil Hewitt
Libretto research
Kate McGrath
Original idea
Tom Morris
Names of the Dead will be performed at Opera North on Monday
8 May 2006, by arrangement with Fuel.
Visit www.operanorth.co.uk
for more details.
This show is available for touring. For more information email kate@fueltheatre.com
2005
May: Performances at BAC's Burst Festival
2003
September: Scratch performances at BAC Opera
The Team
Mark Espiner
See biog page
Mark Anstee
Mark attended Goldsmith's College, Central School of Speech and Drama, and
completed his MA in Fine Art at the University of Brighton 1999. As an artist
he has exhibited widely in the UK and in Europe, these include commissions
to make large scale temporary works for the In Flanders Fields Museum, Yypres,
Belgium, where he made the 72 day live drawing 'encounter'; the Royal Armouries,
Leeds/ 'Friendly Fire' , and a 12 day drawing at the Irish Museum of modern
Art where he has been artist in residence for the last 4 months this year.
He is currently showing in The Jerwood Drawing Prize touring exhibition 2005,
and will be making a new drawing in Lille, France later this month. Future
projects include two new drawing commissions for Fabrica/Brighton, September
2005 and the De La Warr Pavillion/Bexhill 2006. Theatre design work includes
collaborations with Simon Cox and ETS in 'Harvest' at the Jerwood Space and
Southwark Playhouse/London; 'Kappa' at the Gate Theatre/London and 'The Witch
of Edmonton", Southwark Playhouse /London. He has also worked with the
theatre company 'Synergy' on the new Simon Bennett play Burn, at Southwark
Playhouse 2004. Mark has been working closely with Mark Espiner and 'Sound
and Fury' in the last couple of years and was involved with 'The Watery Part
of the World' at BAC/London 2002 and European tour 2003; 'Names of the Dead'
(part 1) in association with Tom Morris as part of the scratch Opera season
at BAC 2003, R&D work with the band Sonic Youth for a collaborative project
at the Barbican and, more recently at the Arvon foundation developing a new
project based on the 'Kursk' submarine disaster .
Adey Grummet
Adey works in a wide range of repertoire. She has created soprano roles in
new operas by many contemporary composers and made concert and recital appearances
at most leading recital venues. She is an Associate Artist at BAC and also
sings with The Shout. Her most recent work has been playing a comedian and
a penguin in Richard Thomas's Stand-Up in Hannover Germany and performing
a new realisation of The Medium by Peter Maxwell Davies in Antwerp for Musiektheater
Transparant. She leads workshops with community groups and works in signed
song with the Deaf. She founded and directs the ensemble The Curate's Egg.
She sits on the board of the Society for the Promotion of New Music and was
for 8 years an artistic advisor to the Stoke Newington Festival. She is the
author of one book and numerous songs and libretti. If that does not exhaust
you, she also gardens and is a dab hand with a two-speed hammer drill. See
the website www.adeygrummet.co.uk
Guy Hoare
Guy has been a freelance lighting designer since 1995, designing work for
theatre, opera and contemporary dance mainly in the UK. Recent designs for
theatre include A Streetcar Named Desire for Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Crossings
for Sgript Cymru, The Little Fir Tree, Fen, Far Away, and Macbeth for Sheffield
Theatres, Could it be Magic? and Zero Degrees and Drifting… for Unlimited
Theatre, The Ballad of Johnny 5 Star for The Library Theatre, Manchester,
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme at the Pleasance Theatre,
London. He has been Resident Designer for The London Classic Theatre Company
since 2000 and has lit their last eleven pieces, most recently Frozen, The
Caretaker, and Closer.
He has also been Resident Designer for Henri Oguike Dance Company since 2000.
Designs include Second Signal, Seen of Angels, White Space, Frames per Second
Parts 1 & 2, Finale, Dido & Aeneas, Frontline, In Broken Tendrils,
Melancholy Thoughts, Shot Flow, and A Moment of Give and he has recently performed
at festivals in Paris, Monte Carlo, Tel Aviv, Sintra, Stuttgart and Damascus.
Two new works will première next week in Bury St Edmunds Cathedral.
Other designs for Dance include Dive for The Mark Bruce Company, Flicker for
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, and Show, Spirit Level, Bye, Orange Gina,
and Sleep Talking for The Snag Project. He regularly works at Longborough
Festival Opera for whom he has lit Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried,
Götterdämmerung, The Magic Flute, and Tosca. He has also lit Cinderella
for ROH Education. Previous projects at BAC include The Cradle Will Rock,
Venus & Adonis, Lost in the Stars and Treemonisha.
