Music
Conor Mitchell
Director
Conor Mitchell
Assistant Director/Stage Manager
Jonathan Rainey Reid
Orchestral Associate
Aoife Magee
Lighting Designer
Mary Tumelty
Sound Designer
Ian Vennard
Libretto
Mark Ravenhill
Associate Director
Matthew Cavan
Conductor
Tom Deering
Set & Costume Designer
Tracey Lindsay
Video Designer
Gavin Peden
Company Manager
Bethany Simpson
The Headless Soldier
Music by Conor Mitchell
Libretto by Mark Ravenhill
Direction by Conor Mitchell & Matthew Cavan
Assistant Direction by Jonathan Rainey Reid
“I want us – you, me – Zachary – to build a wall against the world.”
Far away, a war rages. Here, everything is perfect. Or is it?
In a world premiere, two of the UK’s most vital and influential queer voices join forces for a three-part operatic first. Mark Ravenhill (Shopping and Fucking) and Conor Mitchell’s (Abomination, a DUP opera) piercing new work looks beneath the perfect lives of Helen, her husband, Thomas and their haunted son, Zach – finding a hidden, much closer war.
The latest collaboration between the award-winning Belfast Ensemble and Outburst Queer Arts Festival, this powerful triptych of short operas is performed in one night, blending multi-media with live performance, international soloists and chamber orchestra.
Production photography from The Headless Soldier can be found below.
Design by Tracey Lindsay
Lighting Design by Mary Tumelty
Video Design by Gavin Peden
Images ©Neil Harrison