PREVIEW: Brighton Festival: Stella by Neil Bartlett
A theatrical encounter with a truly remarkable person, Stella is a new show inspired by the strange life and lonely death of Ernest Boulton – one half of the now-infamous Victorian cross-dressing duo Fanny and Stella.
World Premiere: co-commissioned by Brighton Festival
A theatrical encounter with a truly remarkable person, Stella is a new show inspired by the strange life and lonely death of Ernest Boulton – one half of the now-infamous Victorian cross-dressing duo Fanny and Stella.
Intimate and emotional, scandalous and glamorous, Stella uses two performers, an empty stage and a haunting real-life story to ask what it might take to truly be yourself.
Neil Bartlett, one of Britain’s most individual theatre-makers, makes a welcome return to Brighton Festival following his much-lauded staging of Britten: The Canticles with Ian Bostridge in 2013.
Neil Bartlett reminds us that anything is possible in the theatre…. The Guardian
Event: Stella – written & directed by Neil Bartlett
Where: Theatre Royal, New Road, Brighton
When: Friday 27 & Saturday 28 May
Time: 8pm
Cost: £10 – £17.50
To book tickets online, click here:
Performed by
Richard Cant
,Oscar Batterham
andDavid Carr
Stage design Rae Smith
Costumes Johanna Coe
Lighting Rick Fisher
Sound Chris Shutt
Music Nicolas Bloomfield
Vocal Coach Rebecca Root
Age 14+
Duration: 75 minutes approx.
Stella is a co-commission by LIFT, Brighton Festival and Holland Festival
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