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JESSICA WALKER |
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Plays by Jessica Walker |
Girl I Left Behind Me, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Howard Assembly Room, Leeds | 15 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | Opera North | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849431972 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #134391 | |||
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Genre: | musical theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | musician | |||||
Notes: | written by Neil Bartlett, Jessica Walker | |||||
| ... I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thinking; hang on a minute; I seem to have the knack of pleasing ladies. In trousers? With short hair? In public? Was that allowed? Indeed it was.' A cool and contemporary look at one of the most intriguing aspects of musical theatre just what is it that makes a woman in trousers so appealing? Accompanied by a piano, mezzo-soprano Jessica Walker dons a few well-chosen items of male attire, giving a supremely well-sung performance that conjures up an entire world, from the swaggering cross-dressers of the Victorian Music Hall to the ambiguous boy-heroes of Mozart and Strauss, to the back-room bulldykes of the Harlem Renaissance. Commissioned and produced by Opera North Projects with the Southbank Centre touring partner Welcome to Yorkshire. The Girl I Left Behind Me is a provocative, flirtatious, personal one woman-guide which deliciously recalls a forgotten chapter of female performance. | |||||
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