Photo by Euan MylesA thrilling and unique music-theatre experience performed by Marc Almond. Read more …
In London, Came the plague in sixteen sixty five, One hundred thousand dead, But I alive.
London is infected. The dead fall in the streets. As the plague pits fill, the people of London struggle to maintain a society in the face of overwhelming mortality. Based on eye-witness accounts from 1665 and drawing poetic parallels with modern epidemics, Ten Plagues relates one man's journey through a city in crisis.
Ten Plagues is an extraordinary collaboration between four of the UK's most distinctive artists - the internationally acclaimed artist and iconic muscian Marc Almond; playwright Mark Ravenhill (Shopping and Fucking, Ravenhill for Breakfast, A Life in Three Acts); Traverse Artist in Residence and international theatre director and opera designer Stewart Laing (untitled projects, Titanic on Broadway) and the award winning Conor Mitchell. Conor has written over 40 scores for theatre, including Have a Nice Life and the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
Ten Plagues is a curate’s egg if ever there was one, in which a host of good ideas have somehow cancelled each other out.
A disappointment.
Ten Plagues--Mark Ravenhill musical inspired by London Plague of 1665
Marc Almond interview
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Monday August 1, 2011, until Sunday August 28, 2011. More info: www.traverse.co.uk
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