It is rare indeed to attend a work whose dramatic place is less than a kilometre from its place of staging.
Returning to The Malthouse’s Beckett Theatre for the first time in two years, it was a night of debuts across the board at the premiere of Aran Thangaratnam’s Stay Woke.
I doubt that this opera will ever make it into the standard repertoire. Yet congratulations to the Festival organisers for putting it on especially in the current circumstances.
Not an entirely new concept but one so stylishly written and performed deserves praise and certainly a devoted following.