Roxanne’s approach to creating text for stage makes use of seemingly esoteric or overlooked subjects matters, which are not normally presented in a theatrical setting. The aims of these works are to inspire audiences to rethink their positions on both opera/music theatre and the subjects they are presented with. To understand them from a human perspective despite their seemingly distant connections to our everyday lives.
Her commissioned works include: [shut] for Birmingham Opera Company (PRS funded), The Flowering Desert for University of Birmingham’s Commonwealth Games Culture Programme, Besse: Water, Rye and Hops for Birmingham based brewery Dig Brew Co., adaptations of The Journey to the West for composer Anna Ho, Entanglement! An Entropic Tale for Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s Opening Festival and a feminist approach to Rosalind Franklin’s Biography for King’s College London.
Entanglement! An Entropic Tale
This opera makes use of the 20th century’s greatest advancements in physics to create a new mythopoetic tale, following the fate of one confused electron, as it battles with the laws of physics and vast cosmological encounters.
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“The show very effectively represents the paradoxes and haphazardness of nature . . .”
Anna Marshall, Leftlion Nottingham
Besse: Water, Rye and Hops
Besse is a beer opera trilogy telling the story of a brewster against the backdrop of the Black Death, the rising patriarchy and witch hunts. Will she survive the alcoholic further of the crowds around her?