This piece was billed as:
a new chamber opera based on the original screenplay…
…perhaps we should have paid heed to that billing.
It was not to our taste.
It was part of the Springboards season, of which we saw three productions at the Cottesloe in two weeks. This was the second of the three we saw.
Below is a review from The Guardian – opera review rather than theatre review please note:
Baby Doll May 1993 Tue, May 11, 1993 – 28 · The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) · Newspapers.com
The Observer review can be seen as part of the article (including the picture) below:
Observer May 1993 Cottesloe Sun, May 9, 1993 – 55 · The Observer (London, Greater London, England) · Newspapers.com
We stayed at mine that weekend. Whether I cooked or we got a takeway on the way home is lost in the mists of time.
I do recall Janie trying to sound like the atonal operatic voices in this misguided Baby Doll production for some while after the show.
Oh dear.