The Rape of Lucretia - Britten
Arcola Theatre, Grimeborn Festival 2018
London, UK
Director: Julia Burbach
Music Director: Peter Selwyn
Designer: Bettina John
Lighting Designer: Rob Price
Assistant Director: Lysanne van Overbeek
Assistant Director: Mark Burns
Orchestra: Orpheus Sinfonia
Lucretia: Bethan Langford
Tarquinius: Benjamin Lewis
Male Chorus: Robert Murray/ Nick Pritchard
Female Chorus: Natasha Jouhl
Collatinus: Andrew Tipple
Junius: James Corrigan
Bianca: Katharine Taylor-Jones
Lucia: Claire Swale
Photographer: Robert Workman
...The Rape of Lucretia, boldly directed...first at Glyndebourne in 1946, it may have had the legendary contralto Kathleen Ferrier in the title role, but it can scarcely have been more gripping than this...
The Observer, Fiona Maddocks
★★★★
