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An Opera by Ravioli Me Away & Friends
A major touring performance in 3 acts by Ravioli Me Away involving 20 creative contributor/collaborators and produced accross multiple residencies at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge including an exhibition and double vinyl record of the soundtrack.
Toured and commissioned in partnership with Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge; BALTIC Centre For Contemporary Art, Gateshead; The Box, Plymouth; Block Universe Performance Festival, London; Heart n Soul, The Albany, London.
Funded by Arts Council England.
Performed, written and directed by Ravioli Me Away (Theobald, Ridgway, Dorrer) Featuring...
What about this?...
Are you really here?
If you are, then how do you know you are?
Are you looking for confirmation in the eyes of the person sitting next to you?
Do they know you? ..and if so how do they recognise you?
Is it from your jacket? Your hairstyle? Your dependable moral compass, witty remarks or bad breath?
RMA invite you to experience TVFBTFRT a poetic, vivid and generous multimedia extravaganza that creates a stylistic and comical portal celebrating life and all who perpetually squirm in it.
An experience that offers escapism from escapism! ...a genuine contempt for continuity an a true disdain for brain bloating its audience with a standardised straightforward narrative.
A soundtrack to everything and a monument to nothing TVFBTFRT sings and dances it way enthusiastically through inner and outer realities sifting through its characters to reveal moments of golden clarity to be shared by all.
Watch carefully now... look there through the leaves! ...it’s YOU! ...ME! ...and every his he and them slurping from the hot steamy saucepan of consciousness! Bon appetit friends, when you wake up tomorrow you might be someone else.
VFBTFRT Performance Touring History:
9th February - Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
30th March - Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
30th March - Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
11th May - The Box at The Barbican, Plymouth (matine and evening)
18th May - The Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art, Gateshead
1st June - Block Universe performance Festival at The Albany, London (matine and evening)
Block Universe performance Festival at The Albany, Photos by Rui Ferreira
5 tracks form the opera can be listened to on soundcloud. The full double disk LP album of the soundtrack is released on Wysing Polyphonic can be purchased here.
Album track listing:
Disc One
A1 Majik Flute
A2 Everything Is Happening
A3 Birthtime
A4 Tasting Notes
A5 Optimists Lament
B1 Pams Theme
B2 Parasistical Cultural Harness
B3 The Vanilla Alternative
B4 Sex Flute
Disc Two
C1 Naked Or Fake Naked
C2 Chaos In The Pigsty
C3 The Main Character
C4 Pams Parental Problems
D1 The Man With The One Track Mind
D2 Chalice of Sugar
D3 The View From Behind The Futuristic Rose Trellis
Produced by Ravioli Me Away and Tom Hirst (AKA Design A Wave).
Track 13 written by Ben Wallers.
Recorded at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge 2017.
Engineered by Charlotte Poulet.
Tracks 03, 09, 11, 14 recorded at Soundsavers, London 2018.
Engineered by Mark Jasper 2018.
Mastered by Jamie Greer, Glasgow.
Album artwork by Adam Sinclair, Jack Barraclough, Stefan Sadler and Ravioli Me Away
©Ravioli Me Away HQ 2019
View From Behind The Futuristic Rose Trellis exhibition. Photos by Wilf Speller