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American Premiere

The Last Hotel

January 8-10, 12, 15-17, 2016 at St. Ann's Warehouse

A St. Ann’s Warehouse Presentation of a Landmark Productions and Wide Open Opera Production

 

A beautiful woman meets a couple in an hotel parking lot by the sea. All three are nervous. A kinetic concierge will bear witness to fulfillment of their pact. Enda Walsh’s first opera finds humor in both the banal and the dire — from the mundane everyday to choices of life vs. death, and Donnacha Dennehy’s thrumming, pulsating score hopscotches between delicacy and intensity in the raw, tender The Last Hotel.

 

The Last Hotel is supported by piece by piece productions, The Arts Council Ireland, and Culture Ireland.

 

Photos by Teddy Wolff.

Co-Presented with

“Skillful, intelligent, and ultimately troubling.”

– George Grella, New York Classical Review

 

“The Last Hotel mines the bland bounty of hotel dining (there’s a memorable mistreated mash…again, Irish) and its other comforts for existential horror and occasional humor… hearing these virtuosic operatic voices swell to emotional overload with repetitions of pleasant, hotel-specific experiences is at once laughable and disquieting.”

– Moze Haleprin, Flavorwire

 

“Mr. Dennehy’s score is both complex and transparent.”

– Navida Stein, StageBuddy

Cast
Woman – Claudia Boyle
Husband – Robin Adams
Wife – Katherine Manley
Caretaker – Mikel Murfi
Woman (London) – Aoife Miskelly

  • Composer
    Donnacha Dennehy
  • Librettist
    Enda Walsh
  • Director
    Enda Walsh
  • Conductors
    André de Ridder & Alan Pierson
  • Set and Costume Design
    Jamie Vartan
  • Lighting Design
    Adam Silverman
  • Sound Design
    David Sheppard & Helen Atkinson
  • Associate Director
    Sophie Motley
  • Show run time
    80 minutes