Award-winning theatre firm Metta Theatre are happy to launch a solid EP and music video for The Minotaur. Award-winning author/director P Burton-Morgan (The Rhythmics, HouseFire, In The Willows) and composer Felix Hagan (Operation Mincemeat, HouseFire) reunite on a musical primarily based on the Greek delusion of The Minotaur – as a metaphor for fossil-fuel induced local weather collapse and the inspiring energy of neighborhood coming collectively to rise above denial, greed and devastation.
The EP options Janie Dee as ‘Pasiphae’, Arthur Darvill as ‘Theseus’, Zweyla Mitchell dos Santos as ‘Ariadne’, Neil McDermott as ‘Daedalus’ and Robin Simoes da Silva as ‘Icarus’.
The music video of ‘Singing Our Song’ is choreographed by Mark Smith (The Color Purple, Deaf Men Dancing) with Andy Staples as Director of Photography, edited by William Reynolds, and with BSL translation by Deepa Shastri. The movie options Sue Appleby as ‘Pasiphae’ (with vocals by Zweyla Mitchell dos Santos) and Natasha Julien as ‘Ariadne’, (with vocals by Janie Dee).
Commissioned by digital assist company The Space and Metta Theatre, this iteration of the undertaking has been created each as a murals in its personal proper to lift consciousness of local weather justice, and in addition as a digital calling card to venues and producers interested by approaching board to develop the complete stage musical, which is able to finally be a large-scale musical for five skilled performers and a neighborhood solid of 100.
The beleaguered mining neighborhood of Crete, below the controls of their tyrannical ruler Queen Pasiphae should proceed to feed the capitalist beast within the coronary heart of the labyrinth of mines, or face loss of life. Young Theseus, an outsider who has lastly deserted his personal mining profession tries to impress the character loving daughter of Pasiphae, Ariadne.
Despite Ariadne’s pleas to her mom to reconnect with nature and her personal chilly coronary heart, making an attempt to dismantle late-stage capitalism single handily is an excessive amount of for anybody particular person, so with the assistance of inventor Daedalus and his striving bold baby Icarus, they have to persuade the area people to work collectively to reimagine a brand new local weather acutely aware future.
But as soon as the belching smoke of the Minotaur has cleared and the lung-irritating coal mud has settled, they have to overcome a far larger monster than the machine itself. Can the neighborhood succeed within the face of company capitalist greed? Things are heating up on Crete…
William Reynolds stated,
“After a year of extremes, climate breakdown is no longer an idea for the future, but a visceral reality across the world – and Putin’s weaponisation of energy starkly highlights the danger of our addiction to the fossil fuels causing all the damage. It’s never been more pressing for theatre to engage with the Climate & Ecological Crises, and after pioneering environmental sustainable production for over a decade I’m so excited to be developing this urgent and optimistic show which engages so deftly with such huge, vital issues of climate justice and the power of community.”
P Burton-Morgan stated,
“This year has shown even those on the fence that we can no longer ignore the threat of the climate crisis. This new musical unpacks some of the climate crisis complexities but most of all engages on an emotional level with a subject that sometimes feels too big to connect to. And as always there’s a seed of hope.”