Unborn In America - I Don't Need You Madonna

Unborn In America - a cabaret opera by Luke Styles staring Jessica Walker.

“aggressively trendy.”
The Financial Times – Hannah Nepil

“it’s more like a double length episode of South Park, but done as contemporary opera”
“Unborn... (and Islands) seem to have sprung from no discernible precedent.”
“The music element is pretty special. Styles is clearly a gifted composer in the modern opera idiom.”
“… clearly made with great care and a ridiculous amount of talent.”
“I’d be a shit not to record that this opening night was met by a largely
rapturous response from a sell-out audience in what turns out to be a
pretty big auditorium for avant garde chamber opera,”
Postcard from the Gods – Andrew Haydon
“Unborn In America is brave in its scope and takes a chance. Librettist / director Peter Cant and composer / conductor Luke Styles don’t short change their audience and present a show that is gutsy and pinged with political rhetoric without being preachy.”
“There is a wildness to this unusual piece that is as interesting as it is ridiculously funny.”
“The fact that this was made, was workshopped, and did premiere at such a fitting festival is something we must always celebrate. Theatre must continue to be nonconformist and willing to take risks, be controversial and most of all challenge their audiences.”
The New Current - Jello Biafra
“…the little band under composer-conductor Luke Styles’s direction reinforces the impression, establishing an anarchic tone in which the influences of Alban Berg and Kurt Weill fuse merrily.”
The Independent – Michael Church
“…an assault by a confident agitprop theatre company…”
TimeOut – Jonathan Lennie
“Styles’ sparse, percussive score throbs with tribal-like rhythms, acute snare drum hammering and melodies which scurry all over the place.”
“This is opera at its most provocative.”
Fringe Opera - Francesca Wickers
“The bluesy type cabaret music composed by Luke Styles, coupled with an intentionally gimmicky libretto by director Peter Cant [minus the violence, the referrentialism is entirely Quentin Tarantino] provides a conflict between a nostalgia for a Kurt Weillian epoch whose artistic works served a socially useful purpose, with a more brazen, infantile and yet depraved world Ziggy eventually finds herself in.”
Theatre Bubble - Verity Healey

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