Forthcoming Productions
Robin Hood
Music: Grant Olding
Book: Stephen Plaice
A family musical that restores Robin Hood as the Green Man.
The Sheriif of Nottingham is intent on taxing the people's fun but Robin is determined to stop him.
December 10 — 30
The Castle Wellingborough
For booking information go to The Castle's What's On page.
Ludd and Isis
Composer: Richard Taylor
Librettist: Stephen Plaice
Isis, Queen of the Thames, is disgusted by the mess her husband King Ludd has made of the Lower River. He has to convince her that his new Production Park will bring industry and creativity into harmony. He employs Bram Stoker to stage a show to please her.
A new opera for the opening of Royal Opera House Production Park Purfleet
December 6, 7, 8, 10, 11
Culturgest
Paint Me
Music: Luis Tinoco
Libretto: Stephen Plaice
Six travellers share a railway compartment on their way to Canterbury.
They use each other as the characters for their day-dreams.
December 17/18th 2010
Culturgest
Lisbon
For tickets and info contact: culturgest@cgd.pt
Stephen Plaice is a dramatist working in film, theatre and opera. In the last decade he has become one of Britain's leading librettists and bookwriters for musical theatre.
News
* An extract from the Icarus opera Stephen is creating with the composer Michael Zev Gordon will be performed at this year's Tête-à-Tête festival in London in August.
*Stephen is currently developing a children's opera The Pedlar of Swaffham with the composer Julian Broughton.
*In April this year, a semi-staged version of Jonathan Gill and Stephen Plaice's comic opera The Moon On a Stick was performed to great acclaim as part of the ROH2 Exposure season in the Linbury Theatre at Covent Garden.
*At Dartington in August this year, with the composer Harrison Birtwistle, the director Stephen Langridge and the designer Alison Chitty, Stephen will be exploring the musical and dramatic possibilities of the original Faust Chapbook, in a project provisionally entitled Theatre of Illusion.
* Stephen's latest stage play Mick and Me, about an imaginary friendship with a certain rock-star in the 1960s, is currently in development at Watford Palace Theatre.