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Poets and Nobel laureates Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott combine forces with Trinidadian composer Dominique Le Gendre to produce opera “Burial at Thebes,” exhibit “Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms,” Norwegian film “The Kautokeino Rebellion,” author Andrew Davidson's first book "The Gargoyle," photograph and film exhibit “30 Years of Solitude,” underwater concert composed by Michel Redolfi
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Shh!… top secret arts information: we're getting some special sneak previews of some very exciting events.
First, the two poets and Nobel laureates Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott have combined forces with the Trinidadian composer Dominique Le Gendre to produce an opera. Heaney's "Burial at Thebes" is based on Sophocles' story of Antigone – the young woman who knowingly courts a King's displeasure and death when she stubbornly refuses to allow her brother's corpse to remain unburied. It's the first time that Heaney has allowed one of his works to be given an operatic treatment. Join us on the Ticket when we visit the production in rehearsal as they prepare for their world premiere and speak to both Walcott and LeGendre about this epic and ambitious project.
The Ticket also goes behind the scenes at London's Hayward Gallery where technicians are painting walls and banging in nails in preparation for the opening of a new massive retrospective of the work of one of America's most ubiquitous pop artists: Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms. We will be assessing his work and his influence in the company of the exhibition curator Eva Meyer Hermann and the artist Gavin Turk.
When it was first released earlier this year, the film The Kautokeino Rebellion caused something of a stir in it's native Norway, outselling all the major Hollywood films. Made by the Oscar-nominated director Nils Guap, the film tells the story of a very bleak moment in Norwegian history, when a group of Sami people, who live in the very far north of Norway, in the arctic circle, rose up against the Norwegian government. The Ticket hears from the Sami what they made of the film.
Rarely is an author's first published effort received with the amount of hoo-ha and sensationalism that has greeted Andrew Davidson's first book "The Gargoyle". Could it be that the story of the beautiful porn star who, after crashing his car and being burnt to a crisp, meets a wild and compelling sculptress who tells him they were lovers in medieval Germany and nurses him back to health (apparently for a second time) has captured the imagination of readers already? Or could it be the rumoured $1.5 dollar advance - a new record - that the publishers reportedly paid Davidson? Hear what Davidson thinks about it all himself, when he comes into The Ticket studio to talk about "The Gargoyle". You can also hear our review
"30 Years of Solitude" is an exhibition of photography and film exploring the lives of women in Iran since the 1979 revolution. We'll hear what it can tell us about the living and working as an artist in Iran today.
And finally, music for mermaids: The Ticket hears all about a very special concert in Monte Carlo composed by Michel Redolfi and performed underwater!
The Ticket Extra:
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson published by Canongate - ISNB 978-1-84767-168-4
