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EMPRESS MATILDA
Empress Matilda is a woman who, frustrated in her personal and professional life, seeks refuge in her love of history. While reenacting Empress Matilda’s struggle for the English throne, she suffers a head injury and wakes up seeming to believe that she truly is Empress Matilda in the year 1143.
After Matilda spends two decades living in a faux castle with employees in period dress, Matthew, a former close friend of hers, and his son, Theo, enlist the help of a doctor to try to bring her back to the present day. They meet in the throne room of Matilda's villa to commence their plan.
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Plastic Flowers is a monodrama about broken hearts in a fabricated universe. A hedonistic homage to fashion's decadence; and a power anthem for self-love.
Penelope searches for permanence in a world of disposable relationships and fugitive desires. Seduced by the lure of consumerism, she holds on fiercely to the possibility of something real.
Promises of instant connection are bound to fall into frustration. They are all plastic flowers, artificial paradises.
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SARAH WALDE
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Sarah Wald is a composer, flutist, and university lecturer. Her compositions have been featured at festivals in the US and Europe and on WFMT’s Relevant Tones. Sarah has also received grants and commissions from arts organizations, ensembles, and soloists across the US. Most recently,
she won first place in Vox Musica’s choral composition competition. Sarah has a long-term fascination with opera. She was introduced to it at an early age and wrote
a chamber opera for her master’s thesis, Elegy for a Lady. Her current project is Empress Matilda, which is a collaboration with IBOC and librettist Andrea Fineberg.
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Sarah Wald is a composer, flutist, and university lecturer. Her compositions have been featured at festivals in the US and Europe and on WFMT’s Relevant Tones. Sarah has also received grants and commissions from arts organizations, ensembles, and soloists across the US. Most recently,
she won first place in Vox Musica’s choral composition competition. Sarah has a long-term fascination with opera. She was introduced to it at an early age and wrote
a chamber opera for her master’s thesis, Elegy for a Lady. Her current project is Empress Matilda, which is a collaboration with IBOC and librettist Andrea Fineberg.
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