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Time to say goodbye: Moonlight /The Last Seed at Tête à Tête

By Charlotte Valori, 12 August 2015
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“Joan Rodgers: a magnetic stage presence, a consummate performer”
Reviewed at Kings Place: St Pancras Room, London on 9 August 2015
Programme
Treacher, Moonlight
Zisser, The Last Seed
Performers
Adam Sullivan, Starfish
Joan Rodgers, The Moon Queen
Richard Bryan, Water
Meili Li, Ferryman I
Craig Jackson, Ferryman II
Tristan Landymore, Narcissus
Amar Muchhala, Hades
CHROMA
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Charlotte Valori
Charlotte Valori
Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.