Horse Opera and Patty Hearst Noise Opera

Horse Opera and The Patty Hearst Noise Opera will provide a lot of Fringeness in the last week of the festival.
Performed over three nights from 8pm at the Peacock Theatre (April 30, May 1&2), these acts feature Tennyson references and offal.
Horse Opera, created by Fulbright scholar, Mary Anderson, is a physical theatre piece, drawing on Tennyson’s poem, Ulysses.
Featuring puppetry, masks, live music, video and dance the central character in this modern retelling is a horse.
The Patty Hearst Noise Opera is one of the more challenging and experimental art pieces of this year’s festival.
Featuring offal and performers, the Noise Opera is a cathartic transference of the story of the kidnapping of Patty Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974.
Based on the tapes by Hearst to her parents, the opera extricates the fear, boredom and eventual brief transformation into revolutionary that Hearst underwent.