Pictures from an Exhibition
From: Friday, 8th May 2009
To: Saturday, 23 May 2009
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Our Review:
14 May 2009
Modest Mussorgsky’s great piano suite has been orchestrated and arranged many times, notably by Ravel, but there has never been a choreography, or a staging, as far as anyone knows; and nothing like this extraordinary collaboration between the Young Vic and Sadler’s Wells, directed by Daniel Kramer, with an amazing nightmare gallery design by Richard Hudson and a drunken composer lurching around inside his own music.
Pictures, says the poet (and first lyricist on Les Miserables) James Fenton, who has supplied a tantalising text, is an enigma wrapped in a biographical mystery. Mussorgsky dedicated the work to his friend, the painter and architect Victor Hartmann.
But the “programme” devised for the music, with an onstage pianist breaking up a soundtrack of the Ravel orchestrations and, at one point, a startling Modest megamix, is all about Mussorgsky’s homosexuality, his mother, his alcoholism, his red ha...
Cast
Conor Doyle
Kath Duggan
Edward Hogg
Rob McNeil
Michela Meazza
Inn Pang Ooi
Vinicius Salles
Margarita Zafrilla Olayo
Creative
Young Vic (Producer)
Sadler's Wells (Producer)
Frauke Requardt (Choreographer)
James Fenton (text) (Author)
Daniel Kramer (Director)
Richard Hudson (Design)
Fergus O'Hare (Sound)
Peter Mumford (Lighting)
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