Meet Varjak Paw
Varjak Paw
music Julian Philips
lyrics Kit Hesketh-Harvey
based on the best-selling books by S F Said
One Small Cat, One Big City
“The music, while it did require effort, was brilliant, working seamlessly with the pared-down dramatisation of Said’s hugely engaging children’s stories… Two of the toughest nuts - children’s theatre and contemporary opera - had just been well and truly cracked.”
Guardian
“Plenty of character and action… energetic and visually arresting”
Evening Standard
“Varjak is a delightful operatic hero, enchantingly played by Akiya Henry”
Daily Telegraph
“George Ikediashi… utterly convincing as a villainous cat who eventually sees the light… Simon Wilding, who, in a performance of complete canine conviction, plays a dog named Cludge”
Evening Standard
“A very young audience wriggled and giggled through the last matinee of John Fulljames’s lively Opera Group production of Varjak Paw… Julian Philips’s opera is a jewelbox of musical quotes, with a cheeky patchwork of Rhinemaiden melismas woven into the Scratch Sisters’ doo-wop trios, some sparkling coloratura for Sally Bones (Alinka Kozári), and delicious writing for woodwind.”
Independent on Sunday
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