Forthcoming Productions
Imago
Composer: Orlando Gough
Librettist: Stephen Plaice
Director: Susannah Waters
7th- 9th March 2013 Glyndebourne
The residents of a care home send their youthful avatars into cyberspace to live their lives again in a system called Imago. Eighty-something Elizabeth sends eighteen-year-old Lisette as her representative. In Imago Lisette falls in love with Gulliver, but who is his real host?
A community opera for Glyndebourne
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IN AND OUT OF LOVE
Redblonde Productions
Tour dates 2013
Saturday 16th March: Billingshurst Evershed Arts, Unitarian Chapel 8pm
Tuesday March 19th: Lewes All Saints Centre 8pm
Saturday May 4th & Sunday May 5th: Brighton Unitarian Chapel 8pm
Friday May 17th: Bishop's Kitchen Chichester 7pm
Now booking further tour venues for 2013
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Stephen Plaice is a dramatist working in opera, theatre and film. In the last decade he has become one of Britain's leading librettists and bookwriters for musical theatre.
News
*Stephen has recently written and directed a 'dramatized recital', In and Out of Love, that will be touring the South East in 2013. It incorporates a series of classic opera duets to follow the trajectory of two opera singers as they try to find the balance between their emotional lives and their careers.
* Stephen has begun work on his adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novella Amy Foster with the composer Rolf Martinsson.
The production is scheduled for the Royal Swedish Opera in 2016.
* With the composer Julian Broughton and the conductor Oliver Gooch, Stephen is currently developing a children's opera The Pedlar of Swaffham for Opera East.
* YouTube is now hosting clips of Act One and Act Two of the recent Culturgest production of Paint Me in Portugal (the links will open in a new tab or window).