by Christina Jones with music by Handel and Henrix
World Premiere

With the London Handel Festival, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London 17-19th August 2004

Participating homeless centres:

• The Passage
• Queen Mary Hostel
• Connection at St Martins
• Crisis Skylight

Streetwise Opera will be producing a ground-breaking world premiere production inspired by the house where both Handel and Hendrix lived on Brook Street, London (now the Handel House Museum). Time Flows (A Handel and Hendrix Experience) brings together arias and duets by Handel, Hendrix songs and new music woven together with a libretto by Christina Jones. The promenade performance will take audiences on a magical and colourful journey spanning two centuries alongside two hopeful lovers and their guides in the awesome warehouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London’s Docklands.

Time Flows (A Handel and Hendrix Experience) sees Streetwise Opera working with professional musicians and producers from the London Handel Festival, Handel House Museum and participants from four homeless agencies in London. With a three month programme of weekly workshops already underway, this project will involve around 100 homeless and ex-homeless people.

In keeping with our aims of engendering respect and understanding for the homeless, Streetwise Opera will also be hosting a Gala Performance of the production that subverts the usual concept of an opera gala. As well as invited guests, sponsors and supporters of the project, a large number of tickets will be given free to the homeless, their friends and family. This promises to be a wonderful evening starting with a trip down the Thames on two boats from Tower Bridge and drinks and canapés provided by Delectable Feasts after the performance with the cast and crew in attendance before both groups return to Tower Bridge by boat.

Company

• Performers from The Passage, Queen Mary Hostel, Connection at St Martins and Crisis Skylight
• Katherine Manley – soprano
• JJ – soprano
• Jason Pennycooke – actor/choreographer
• The Thomas Gray Band
• Laurence Cummings and musicians from the London Handel Festival
• William Relton – Director
• Matthew Peacock – Producer
• Christina Jones – Librettist
• Roy Bell – Designer
• Colin Peters – Lighting Designer
• Keith Shadwick – Advisor

Trinity Buoy Wharf, Orchard Place, London E14.
Production dedicated to Mark Puttock

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