GENERATION

Three women. A Boomer, a Millennial and the one in the middle.
What do they have to teach each other? Or forgive each other for?

Featuring a brand new mini opera by playwright, poet and spoken word artist Sabrina Mahfouz and composer Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian, alongside unheard dramatic music by women from the last 400 years - Generation is about women and age, what the young owe their elders, and what they’ve been left with. An honest conversation in words and music about time and whether it makes us wiser or kinder.

Made at The Red House and supported by the Ambache Charitable Trust.

DATES & VENUES

18 October 2019, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall (York)
2020 tour cancelled due to Covid-19.

cast & creative TEAM

Toria Banks - Writer, Director
Donna Bateman - Performer
Lana Bode - Musical Director
Linda Hirst - Performer
Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian - Composer
Sabrina Mahfouz - Librettist
Shakira Tsindos - Performer
and many more composers

with music by

Maria Agnesi Pinottini
Luisa Adolpha le Beau
Clémence de Grandval
Anna Amalia von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
Gabriella Ferrari
Camilla di Rossi
Wilhelmina von Bayreuth
Maria Antonia Walpurgis
Lucille Grétry

Rehearsal Photos

Photographs by Emma Wheeler

with thanks to

Jessica Cottis
Julie Stirman
Melanie Hughes at the Ars Femina Archive at the University of Indiana Southeast, and its founder Susan Reigler
The Ambache Charitable Trust
The Red House/Wild Plum Arts
Heath Street Baptist Church
Trinity Laban
York Concerts