Madama Butterfly - Puccini
Arcola Theatre, Grimeborn Festival - 2015
London, UK
Director: Julia Burbach
Music Director: Paul Wingfield
Designer: Naomi Dawson
Costume Designer: Cecile Tremolieres
Lighting Designer: Nao Nagai
Assistant Director: Mark Burns
Surtitles: Mark Burns
Cio-Cio-San: Natasha Jouhl
B.F. Pinkerton: Thomas Atkins
Suzuki: Ayaka Tanimoto
Sharpless: Gareth Brynmore John
Goro: Christopher Diffey
Prince Yamadori: Nick Dwyer
The Bonze: Freddie Tong
Imperial Commissioner: Freddie Long
Kate Pinkerton: Grace Carter
Chorus:
Kasia Andrzejewska
Olivia Martin
Roxanna Korda
Isky Roberts
Rebecca Moulton
Elaine Borg
Matthew Haas
Rhys Cook
David Padua
Photographers:
Ohmid Salehi
Robert Workman
…So it’s a bold move to take a work that so many people know and love, and radically reinterpret it…Julia Burbach’s new Madama Butterfly is original, memorable and highly effective; I’ll certainly never look at the story in quite the same way again…the unique twist ending leaves us with a feeling of a story not yet finished…
Londontheatre
★★★★
