Philip Glass x
Jorinde Keesmaat
She/Her/Me
She/her/me is a new opera and video labyrinth inspired by, and using, the music of Philip Glass and films of Jean Cocteau. With the full cooperation of Philip Glass, couples from La Belle et la Bête, Les Enfants Terribles and Orphée will be ‘recast’ in a 75’ music theatre piece using Glass’ original music. In Keesmaat’s immersive staging Orpheus and Eurydice, Beauty and the Beast, Paul and Elizabeth explore classic Cocteau themes: the everyday, but also transformational, magic worlds. Pervasive in She/Her/Me: questions of love, trust, and subjugated female identity in art and life. Keesmaat’s claustrophobic setting imprisons ensemble, singers and audience. Extracts from Cocteau’s films are interspersed with live content on wrap-around screens. Alongside, and also a reflection upon Glass’s original scores, Keesmaat and Unusual Suspects are commissioning new music from a young female composer to underscore the dramaturgical force of Keesmaat’s vision driving this project.
2-15 June 2025