Barbican Contemporary Music
 
Tuesday 27, Wednesday 28 July 7.30pm
Hotel Pro Forma and The Knife in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock:
Tomorrow, in a Year
Barbican Theatre
Tickets £15/ 20 / 25
Produced by The Barbican
Part of Blaze
 

A UK premiere for this acclaimed new work, which blends Hotel Pro Forma’s striking visuals with electronic pop act The Knife’s ground-breaking music to create a new species of opera.  The world seen through the eyes of Charles Darwin forms the basis for the performance Tomorrow, in a Year. 


Darwin, time and nature are represented on stage by an opera singer, a pop singer and an actor performing The Knife’s music. Six dancers form the raw material of life. Together with the newest technology in light and sound, our image of the world as a place of incredible variation, similarity and unity is re-discovered. 


The inimitable Swedish music group The Knife in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock have created completely new compositions that challenge the conventional conception of opera music. The musical form is thrillingly experimental and exploratory, and much of the sound heard was recorded while in the Amazon Jungle and in Iceland. 

Directed by Ralf Richardt Strøbech and Kirsten Dehlholm, the visual and conceptual universe is formed by Darwin’s thoughts, experiences and letters. The performance is divided into two parts – analogous to the development and publications of The Origin of Species. 


The opera presents an image of Darwin that above all reminds us that the world is a place of remarkable similarities and amazing diversity. That over time - tomorrow, in a year, or tomorrow, in a million years - change is inevitable. 


‘Does it work? The answer is yes! A performance where song, declamation, recorded music,
dance, costume, light, laser and projection come together as an organic unity’ - Svenska Dagbladet (SE)
 
 
Performance at the Barbican Theatre, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS
 
Box Office: 0845 120 7550      www.barbican.org.uk