Carmen
As I see it ...
If we are very lucky, most of us who appear on the Concordia Stage – whether in a musical, a play, an opera or a review – will experience one night when the production takes on a life and a momentum of its own that is more than just the sum of the cast’s individual contributions.
For the members of the cast, it generates a high that is to be treasured and filed away forever in the memory. It is not an everyday experience – nor perhaps should it be.
Even more rare is the occasion when such a performance reaches right across the stage into the auditorium and sends the audience home from the Theatre on a similar high.
Such an event occurred on the last night of Carmen, when the audience was entranced by a mesmeric performance from the cast that went beyond excellence and made everyone present in the Theatre appreciate what a very special evening they had been part of.
As Max Boyce once memorably said about another event in another arena – “I was there…”
So thank you, Stanley Opera.
John Gibbons, Hinckley Times, May 2007
