Arcola Theatre, London
August 2019
Music by Bushra El-Turk, Liza Lim and Cassandra Miller
Libretto by Eleanor Knight
Conductor Kelly Lovelady
Director Heather Fairbairn
Designer Charlotte Henery
Lighting Designer Sean Gleason
Video Designer Sapphire Goss
Production Manager Gabriel Finn
Producer Ruthless Jabiru
Cast: Camille Maalawy, Mona Khalili, Karim Jabri, Shira Agmon, Sophie Atalar, and Aivale Cole.
A woman, alone, wrestles with the part she played in her daughter’s downfall. Is she vulnerable? Or complicit?
Bushra El-Turk‘s hard-hitting, contemporary opera Silk Moth is presented alongside Liza Lim’s The Hearts Ear and Cassandra Miller’s Bel Canto in a new production by London chamber orchestra Ruthless Jabiru.
A stellar cast of singers and conducted ensemble weave together Arabic and Western musical traditions, examining the complex tragedies of honour crime, family violence, and female (dis)empowerment in Britain and beyond.
https://www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/silk-moth/
Press:
”a daring and powerful theatrical evening which lasted less than an hour, but whose emotion will resonate for far longer” https://www.icareifyoulisten.com/2019/08/grimeborn-festival-triple-bill-el-turk-silk-moth/