BLACK RIDER

Malthouse Theatre, Victorian Opera, Melbourne Festival 2017

Direction -  Matthew Lutton
Original Music & Lyrics - Tom Waits
Cast -  Kanen Breen, Paul Capsis, Jacqueline Dark, Winston Hillyer, Le Gateau Chocolat, Meow Meow, Richard Piper & Dimity Shepherd
Musical Direction - Phoebe Briggs
Musical Supervision - Iain Grandage
Set & Costume Design - Zoë Atkinson
Lighting Design - Paul Jackson
Soundscape Design - Jethro Woodward
Choreographer - Stephanie Lake
Sound Design - Jim Atkins
Soundscape Design - Jethro Woodward
Choreographer - Stephanie Lake
Stage Manager - Lisa Osborn
Original Direction - Robert Wilson
Music & Lyrics - Tom Waits
Text - William S. Burroughs

Who else could write a macabre musical about a pact with the devil, but Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs? Cry-in-beer ballads meet 1920s jazz and gritty beat poetry, in a carnival of addictions. Black Rider is a spectacle that pulls the audience into the dark and decadent depths of the underworld.

Malthouse Theatre and Victorian Opera team up to create a theatrical fantasia with some of Australia’s greatest seducers, including Meow Meow as the Devil Pegleg,  Paul Capsis and Kanen Breen in a production that is part vaudeville, part opera, and all dance with the devil.

Photography: Pia Johnson