Boojum!
Dunstan Playhouse
05 Jul - 06 Jul 2019TICKETS
From $16*“BOOJUM! MAKES CARROLL’S UNIMAGINABLE NONSENSE UNIMAGINABLY HUMAN.”
Not quite an opera, not quite a musical comedy, Boojum! is an irresistible contemporary snark hunt. Based on Lewis Carroll’s legendary poem “The Hunting of the Snark”, Boojum! leads us on a journey as we uncover Nonsense, Truth and Lewis Carroll, or as he was known to his family Reverend Charles Dodgson. Described as possessing a ‘Gilbert-and-Sullivan-meets-David-Lynch vibe’ the piece is both a human examination of Carroll and his moral true-self Dodgson and a meandering, quirky, beautiful feast of words and music. It is nothing short of ‘light-hearted but deadly-serious choral fantasy.’
Boojum! by Peter and Martin Wesley-Smith was premiered by State Opera in the 1986 Adelaide Festival, directed by Gale Edwards and conducted by Andrew Greene. It has subsequently been performed in the US to critical acclaim.
THIS PRODUCTION IS PROUDLY SPONSORED BY THE FRIENDS OF STATE OPERA.
- Composer
- Martin Wesley-Smith
- Libretto
- Peter Wesley-Smith
- Director
- Joseph Mitchell
- Conductor
- Warwick Stengårds
- Designer
- Simone Romaniuk
- Lighting Designer
- Nigel Levings
- Rv C L Dodgson
- Adam Goodburn
- Lewis Carroll
- Brock Roberts
- Alice
- Katrina Mackenzie
- Mrs Hargreaves
- Joanna McWaters
- Al, the American
- Jeremy Tatchell
- Wal, the Bellman
- Joshua Rowe
- Caterpillar
- Mark Oates
- Carl, the Russian
- Norbert Hohl
- Clarrie, the Butcher
- Charlotte Kelso
- Cora, the Bootmaker
- Catherine Campbell
- Erroll
- Andrew Turner
- Hatter
- Jamie Moffatt
Singers of the State Opera Winter School
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📸 Annie Aitken in the 2018 performance of Candide directed by Mitchell Butel with the Sydney Philharmonia Choir. Photo by Grant Leslie
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