Scenes From A New Jericho part 1
Tables and chairs, with their occupants, counterbalanced against each other, drifting, falling, up and down, all hanging off the side of the Queen Elizabeth Hall at London’s South Bank Centre.
Every action was accompanied by an equal and opposite reaction. So it is with the emotions: the text by Deborah Evans strung together the bittersweet and contradictory sentiments found in snippets of popular songs: "In lines of disconjunctions of interactions every next line renders that line meaningless and ridiculous. Every action in the performance is met with a constant sense of defeat. No time is spent on defeat."
with Diane Esguerra, Dave Goulding, Julian Maynard Smith, Miranda Payne, Gary Stevens, Alison Urquhart
and Nigel Goulding, John McHugh
Text by Deborah Evans
“Station House Opera use pleasure and anxiety simultaneously to keep the spectator somewhere between a real and imaginary world. Working within this complicated technology, they maintain the immediacy of a speculative performance style, in which anything or nothing might happen. Psychologically speaking, to watch Station House Opera is to sit on the edge of one’s seat.”
Minna Thornton, Artscribe Sept 1988
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South Bank Centre, London 1984
