Teatime Opera

Can you ever really know the person you think you love? Unknowing is a poetic and theatrical meditation on what it means to be alive. Using the music of Schumann’s song cycles Dichterliebe and Frauenliebe und Leben as its inspiration, it tells the story of two people - 'Him' and 'Her' - who meet, fall in love, inflict damage on each other and then part. It asks very simple, fundamental questions about what it means to be a human being. How do people communicate? How do people interpret the world? How do people relate to each other as human beings?

Partnering Unknowing is Menotti's The Telephone, a comedy of failed communication. Ben tries to get a word in edgeways but Lucy keeps on being called away... will he ever manage to propose?