THE UNITED KINGDOM OF EARTH
A Brexit Opera
UK Premiere Performances
July 26th
The Agitprop Allstars present "The United Kingdom of Earth"
Tête à Tête: The
Opera Festival, London
September 7th
The Hidden Noise present "The United Kingdom of Earth"
CCA Glasgow
In a not-too-distant future,
having avoided some nuclear misunderstanding that engulfed the rest of the planet,
a post-Brexit Britain finds itself surrounded by nothing but scorched earth.
How do people from the everyday family home to the corridors of power cope with
this? And what on earth is Boris doing in Downing Street in a tie-dye suit?
An epic community opera with
electronic music, performed by a cast of professional and non-professional
actors and singers, “The United Kingdom of Earth” is a wide ranging satire on
British values, beliefs, and histories.
As a “non-denominational satire”
the piece chooses not to take a particular political angle, so is suitable
viewing for all of you whatever your stance on the Brexit argument. A comedy of
manners, “The United Kingdom of Earth” combines killer songs with spoken-word
and synthesised sound to create an evocative picture of a country looking
backwards at itself.
A production of composer, writer,
collagist Dominic Robertson - formerly known as Ergo Phizmiz – who, over the
past twenty years, has become a prolific maverick of UK and international
theatre, opera, radio, and independent music worlds.
Rotterdam’s Worm Institute was
the incubator of this piece, which received its first performances in November
2016 at the Ubik Theatre.
