To celebrate the year of Milton’s quatercentenery CADS and the Marlowe society are reviving his most celebrated masque: Comus. Annilese Miskimmon, an accomplished professional director, will be directing the piece. Miskimmon was a staff producer at Welsh National Opera from 1996 until 2001; she has also worked with English National Opera and extensively with the BBC Orchestras and Proms, and at Glyndebourne. She has been Artistic Director of Opera Theatre Company since December 2003. The artist, Lachlan Goudie will be designing the production.

Set in a wood in 1920s Britain a young lady has been separated from her two hapless brothers and falls into the hands of the bacchanalian figure Comus. However the young lady and her brothers are being protected by a Spirit who conjures the water nymph Sabrina, the protector of chastity and virtue, to save the lady from Comus and his bestial clan.

This peripatetic performance is set in the beautiful Christ's College Fellows' Garden for the performances on the 19th-21st; on the 22nd and 24th the performances will be, for the first time in a very very long time, in the college Hall. Our production will constitute the first half of a longer piece which also includes the Marlowe production 'Comus: An Anti-Mask'.

Please note there is no performace on the 23rd of June.

Cast

Comus - David F. Walton
Lady - Mary-Ellen Lynall
Spirit - Jenni Mackenzie
Elder Brother - Ed Rowett
Younger Brother - Ned Stuart-Smith
Sabrina - Olivia Marshall

Production Team

Director [what's this?] - Annilese Miskimmon
Production Designer [what's this?] - Lachlan Goudie
Producer [what's this?] - Natalie Fast
Assistant Producer [what's this?] - Mary Hughes
Musical Director [what's this?] - Ned Allen
Assistant Musical Director [what's this?] - Richard Bates
Costume Designer [what's this?] - Beth Sims
Choreographer [what's this?] - Kyra Cornwall
Externals Liaison - Hannah Crawforth

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