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“Bouts of intimacy, creativity and comedy”

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"Clare Norburn’s wryly amusing meta-drama sits alongside and is infused and informed by a suite of Spanish-inspired music, performed with tremendous flair by the ensemble CarmenCo."

There Ought To Be Clowns (2025)

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“Clare Norburn’s thoughtful, intelligent Creating Carmen… a piece which is full of cleverness and ingenuity”

Susan Elkin, Lark Reviews

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A collaboration project with CarmenCo. Creating Carmen is a concertplay (where music and theatre collide) by award-winning writer Clare Norburn and BAFTA-nominated director, Nicholas Renton.

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Prosper Merimée is struggling with his latest novella (on which Bizet’s Carmen was based), when his leading character - Carmen - turns up in his study, larger than life, with a band of musicians in tow and chaos in her wake. Which one of them controls the narrative? And what will happen when Carmen discovers the nasty ending Mérimée has planned for her?

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A fun-filled evening of fantasy, comedy, drama and tremendous music from Bizet’s Carmen and Spanish-inspired music by Boccherini, Manuel de Falla, García Lorca, Granados, Ravel and Albeniz, all arranged and performed by the prizewinning trio, CarmenCo: Emily Andrews (flute/mezzo), David Massey and Francisco Correa (classical guitars).

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LINEUP

Niall Ashdown, Prosper Merimée

Suzanne Ahmet, Carmen

Emily Andrews, flute/mezzo

David Massey, classical guitars

Francisco Correa, classical guitars

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Nicholas Renton, director

Clare Norburn, writer & producer

Natalie Rowland, lighting designer