"The Blue Room Theatre is a nurturing environment for established and emerging artists and is instrumental in its role in providing professional development opportunites."
Lord Mayor, the Right Honourable Lisa Scaffidi

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Dawn Pascoe, She Dances In The Dark.

African Queen

Janus Entertainment (Blue Room World First)

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Dates:
(Preview Fri 22 Feb),
Sat 23 Feb,
Tue 26 Feb – Sat 1 Mar,
Tue 4 – Sat 8 Mar,
Tue 11 - Sat 15 Mar

Time:
All shows 8:00pm,
plus Sat 2pm matinees


About the Venue

The Blue Room Theatre
22 February to 15 March 2008

 Image: Nigel Etherington

Novel by CS Forester
Composed by Tim Cunniffe
Libretto by John Senczuk
Lighting by John Davey
Photography by Nigel Etherington

Featuring Ann Adlem and Ian Toyne

ROSE. We must do something for England.
ALLNUT. Coo! … Yerss, miss, if there was anyfink we could do I'd be the first to say we ought ter. What's your notion, specially? … It's a bit of a teaser, isn't it, miss?

This new chamber opera, based on the novella by CS Forester, sees Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer, a disreputable cockney mechanic and a spinster missionary, thrown together by chance as the impact of the First World War reaches the depths of the African jungle.

Deeply incompatible and fighting heat, malaria and bullets, as well as each other, they make their escape down the treacherous Ulanga River on the steamboat the African Queen.

Two of Perth's most accomplished performers, Ann Adlem (Whistle Down the Wind, Phantom of the Opera) and Ian Toyne (Aspects of Love, Showboat) join forces to present this psychological battle of wits and wills in a musical odyssey: the first ever operatic adaptation of Forester's vivid depiction of a journey out of 'the heart of darkness'!

Tickets:

Full $22 / Conc. $18
Blue Room Members: Full $18 / Conc. $12