feast during the plague

In the midst of a terrible plague a group of friends surreptitiously gather... to have a party...

"brilliantly intense, funny, thrilling theatre which defies simple classification" The Stage

A musical adaptation of Alexander Pushkin’s little tragedy for seven actors and nine musicians.

"A strikingly complex work brought to exuberant life by a cast of eight and a six piece band .. an impressive production fuelled by a smouldering mass of robustly observed often comic detail."Time Out

"A promising debut from a young company who might be cloddish by name but never by nature."Time Out

Photos: Richard Nicholson

Battle between Carnival and Lent: Pieter Bruegel 1559 © Kunsthistoisches Museum, Vienna

Credits

Directed by Suzy Willson
Music by Paul Clark
Designed by Sarah Blenkinsop
Translated by Anthony Wood

Performers

Nick Cohen, Gabrielle Epstein, Giovanni Fusetti, Alison Jones, Connor Lovett, Leisa Mererid, Sabina Netherclift, Jason Thorpe.

Musicians

Nick Allen, John Paul Gandy, James Keane, Calina de la Mare, Tim Myall, Nick Stephenson, Niall Webb.

Performed at the BAC, 1995.

Supported by

Arts Council of England

© Clod Ensemble 2010