ROCKING HORSE WINNER by Gareth Williams and Anna Chatterton. Based on the D.H. Lawrence story
Opera Maine
Wednesday, July 5
Friday, July 7
7:30 p.m.
Westbrook Performing Arts Center
471 Stroudwater Street, Westbrook, Maine
pre-performance program with Calien Lewis, Opera Maine dramaturg at 6:30
post-performance community conversation at 8:30 p.m.
Opera Maine's 2023 Studio Artist Program will present two performances of Rocking Horse Winner by Gareth Williams with libretto by Anna Chatterton. A modern adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s short story, Rocking Horse Winner explores the relationship between Paul, a young man with autism, and his emotionally distant mother. Paul becomes dangerously obsessed with solving the “bad luck” of his family in order to win his mother’s love. His pursuit awakens a strange magic that connects him to luck, but also to powerful voices only he can hear. In our new age of entitlement Rocking Horse Winner is an intimate, psychological look at love, “luck”, and greed.
Sung in English. 60 minutes with no intermission. Recommended for mature audiences
Friday, July 7
7:30 p.m.
Westbrook Performing Arts Center
471 Stroudwater Street, Westbrook, Maine
pre-performance program with Calien Lewis, Opera Maine dramaturg at 6:30
post-performance community conversation at 8:30 p.m.
Opera Maine's 2023 Studio Artist Program will present two performances of Rocking Horse Winner by Gareth Williams with libretto by Anna Chatterton. A modern adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s short story, Rocking Horse Winner explores the relationship between Paul, a young man with autism, and his emotionally distant mother. Paul becomes dangerously obsessed with solving the “bad luck” of his family in order to win his mother’s love. His pursuit awakens a strange magic that connects him to luck, but also to powerful voices only he can hear. In our new age of entitlement Rocking Horse Winner is an intimate, psychological look at love, “luck”, and greed.
Sung in English. 60 minutes with no intermission. Recommended for mature audiences
Performances run through
2023-07-07For more information visit
https://www.operamaine.org/2022/11/14/rocking-horse-winner-by-gareth-williams-a…, 7:30 pm
Opera Maine
471 Stroudwater Street
Westbrook, ME 04092
United States
Type:
Opera