Damien Russell

Nov 2, 2023 | lastminutetheatretickets.com | Chris Omaweng |Damien Russell |Lucy Prebble |Joanna Forest

Lizzie Andrew Borden (1860-1927) (Lauren Drew), as this production would have it, triumphed over adversity by getting her own back on a terrible father who mistreated her. The punishment, however, wasn’t proportionate to the crime. On 4th August 1892, she took an axe to her father, Andrew Jackson Borden (1822-1892) and stepmother, Abby Durfee Gray (1828-1892). Well, the Lizzie in this show says she did, and sings about it, then sings about it some more.

May 14, 2023 | lastminutetheatretickets.com | Mary Beer |John Groves |Damien Russell |Alan Fitter

Pegasus Opera’s double bill of Ruth and The Six of Calais is rather like the company’s mythical namesake: it takes two very different, and seemingly incongruous, things and melds them together into a strange but wonderful creature. The two-part production opens with The Six of Calais, with libretto and music by Philip Hagemann based on George Bernard Shaw’s 1934 one-act satirical play.