Paradise Lost
a new opera by Bertie Baigent
adapted & directed by Joseph Winters
after John Milton
Boy meets girl. Girl meets Satan. It’s a tale as old as time.
Defeated in battle and exiled from heaven, Satan burns in a lake of fire. History’s first sweet-talker tricks their way across the universe to seduce humanity, waiting in a garden.
In the grounds of the Master Shipwright’s House an epic new opera comes to Deptford’s hidden palace. Starring English National Opera’s Ella Taylor as Satan and fresh from the Arcola’s Grimeborn, Juliet Wallace as Eve. Adapted from John Milton’s Paradise Lost, one of history’s most politically radical poems, this tale of sex and revenge resonates down the centuries, asking one simple question: who do you want? Who do you really, really want?
Paradise Lost is recipient of the John Hodgson Theatre Research Trust Award and is a contribution to London Borough of Culture 2022.
Satan: Ella Taylor
Eve: Juliet Wallace
Adam: Oskar McCarthy
Belial: Rozanna Madylus
Beelzebub: Steven Fort
Conductor: Bertie Baigent
Director & Designer: Joseph Winters
Associate Director: Daniel Emery
Movement Director: Luis Gallo Mudarra
Costume Designer: Ross Aylward-Tarten
Répétiteur: Thomas Ang
Creative Producer: Emma Halstead
Stage: Garden Stage
Dates & Times: Tuesday 30 August 2022 – Sunday 4 September 2022, 8.30pm
Doors open: 6pm
Running time: 1hr (plus interval)
Covid Policy: This is an outdoor event, covid precautions are taken at the individual’s discretion.
Warnings: This production includes nudity.
Access: This performance is step-free, for specific enquiries about access, email general@theshipwright.co.uk
Come from 6pm and enjoy a delicious dinner by Klose & Soan by the river, with locally brewed and sourced beers, wines and more.
