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12-Feb-2011
Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Desperate Housewives and Troy Boys
Image credit: Rosie Coad as Helen and Christopher Diffey as Paris, © Polly HancockLast night at North London’s Gatehouse theatre saw the Merry Opera Company perform La Belle Hélène, Offenbach’s Trojan War parody of Grand Opera, translated/re-worked by Kit Hesketh-Harvey and enticingly re-labelled Troy Boy. Hesketh-Harvey is best known as half of the cabaret duo Kit and the Widow, but has also been a regular translator of opera for the ENO and others.
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