Future Projects
Touch
“Touch is illegal. Intimacy is to be feared…”
A new chamber opera by Lisa Logan
SETTING: a dystopian world where person-to-person touch is illegal
DURATION: 1hr 45mins
LIBRETTO: adapted by the composer from Briana Morgan’s play, with additional text by Jennifer Thorpe.
In development: fully composed, workshop 2026.
Battlefield
“An immense canvas in miniature, this ancient text is timeless and contemporary, asking how we can find inner peace in a world riven with conflict.…”
A new chamber opera by Lisa Logan, after a play written by Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne, based on Le Mahabharata by Brook, Estienne and Jean-Claude Carrière.
SETTING: The devastation of war is tearing the Bharata family apart. The new king must unravel a mystery: how can he live with himself in the face of the devastation and massacres that he has caused.
DURATION: 2hrs 20mins
LIBRETTO: Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne and Jean-Claude Carrière.
In development: fully composed, workshop tbc.