QUEEN HAVE & MISS HAVEN'T

Queen Victoria and Miss Havisham mourn their respective losses. Using Olivier Messiaen's glorious Turangalîla Symphony as a backbone this duet enters an audience into a horror movie where every outcome is misery and destruction.

Costume design by Tim Spooner, working with underskirts by Yolanda Sonnabend. Make-up design by Darren Evans. Thanks to Patricia Langa, Sheila Hay, Carl Harrison, Julie Cunningham, Claudia Palazzo and Patience Tomlinson.

Commissioned by DanceWest Ignition Festival 2017

Two performers looking out and down as if looking out of a window, one looks terrified while the other looks knowingly.

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Photos by Rosie Powell & Darren Evans

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