Re: [情報] Damon Albarn to star in new stage show
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: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12770942
: Damon Albarn to star in new stage show
: Albarn returns to the Manchester festival four years after staging the
: premiere of his first opera Monkey
: Damon Albarn has written and will star in a stage show about 16th Century
: alchemist, astrologer and spy John Dee.
: Damon寫出一部關於16世紀身兼煉金術、占星術師以及間諜的John Dee的劇作,並且會參
: 與演出.
: A musical work based on Elizabeth I's medical and scientific adviser, Doctor
: Dee will have its premiere in July at the Manchester International Festival.
: 會在七月於Manchester International Festival首演.
: It will then be staged at the home of the English National Opera as part of
: London's Cultural Olympiad programme.
: The Manchester festival will also feature the debut of Bjork's new show
: during a three-week residency.
: Other original productions will be created for the event by immersive theatre
: company Punchdrunk, film-makers The Quay Brothers, comedian Victoria Wood and
: performance artist Marina Abramovic.
: Manchester International Festival director Alex Poots said the event, which
: started in 2007 and takes place every two years, was "a home for major
: artists to realise their most ambitious projects".
: Albarn's Chinese opera Monkey: Journey To The West was a highlight of the
: first Manchester International Festival four years ago and the Blur and
: Gorillaz singer will present his next production at the city's Palace Theatre.
: 繼上齣Monkey: Journey to the West之後再度演出新作.
: Albarn did not appear in Monkey but will perform in Doctor Dee.
: 在上齣劇作中沒有演出,但這齣則會有演出的部份.
: The show has been co-produced by the English National Opera and the London
: 2012 Festival and will be staged at the London Coliseum next year.
: 和the English National Opera還有London 2012 festival協同製作.
: It will be directed by Rufus Norris, who staged Don Giovanni at the ENO last
: year and whose Broadway revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses was nominated for
: five Tony Awards in 2008.
: 導演Rufus Norris,曾獲得五項Tony Awards提名.
: "It will be a big, spectacular show," Mr Poots said. "I know that Damon's
: passionate about it and he's already written some incredibly beautiful songs,
: some anthemic songs."
: Manchester International Festival director Mr. Poots信心滿滿.
: Bjork will launch the Manchester International Festival on 30 June with a
: show based on her new album Biophilia.
: The project combines her interests in music, science and nature and is billed
: as a "multi-media project encompassing music, apps, internet, installations
: and live shows".
: There will be an app for each song and the singer has invented a range of new
: instruments for the shows, including a 30-foot (nine-metre) pendulum that
: harnesses the earth's gravitational pull to create musical patterns.
: She will perform six times over three weeks at the Campfield Market Hall.
: Elsewhere, the Quay Brothers, celebrated for their dark, disjointed films and
: animations, will team up with Russian-born violinist Alina Ibragimova to
: stage chamber music in a promenade setting.
: Punchdrunk will return after creating the acclaimed theatrical experience It
: Felt Like A Kiss with Damon Albarn at the last festival. Their new show, The
: Crash of the Elysium, will be the company's first for children.
: Amadou and Mariam, a blind musical duo from Mali, will attempt to stage the
: world's first concert in total darkness, while comedian Johnny Vegas will
: present a new theatre show.
: Victoria Wood is writing and directing That Day We Sang, about the 1920s
: Manchester Children's Choir, which will open at the Manchester Opera House.
: 'Artistic powerhouse'
: Hollywood actor Willem Dafoe is to star in The Life and Death of Marina
: Abramovic alongside the Serbian-born performance artist. The production will
: feature music written and performed by Antony Hegarty from the Mercury-prize
: winning Antony and The Johnsons.
: The festival will also involve rapper Snoop Dogg, singer Sinead O'Connor,
: artist John Gerrard, the Halle Orchestra and French composer Mark Andre.
: Manchester City Council's executive member for culture and leisure,
: Councillor Mike Amesbury, said the festival "makes a massive contribution to
: the cultural offering of our great city and has helped establish us on the
: world stage as a leading artistic powerhouse".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9502000/9502946.stm
最近又有一則相關的新聞
主要是在介紹Doctor Dee這個人啦
不過也有提到Damon對於這齣戲莫名的狂熱:P
文中還有一小段在Radio 4的訪問內容錄音
看起來Damon似乎對過往的英國相當有興趣呀~
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