As Adapter, Director & Designer:
Paradise Lost
a new opera by Bertie Baigent
adapted by Joseph Winters after John Milton
30 August – 4 September 2022, The Shipwright
Satan Ella Taylor
Eve Juliet Wallace
Adam / Moloch Oskar McCarthy
Belial / Raphael Rozanna Madylus
Beelzebub / Gabriel Stephen Fort
Composer & Conductor Bertie Baigent
Director & Designer Joseph Winters
Associate Director Daniel Emery
Lighting Designer Catja Hamilton
Sound Designer Jamie Lu
Costume Designer Ross Aylward-Tarten
Stage Manager Alice Bishop
Répétiteur Thomas Ang
Costume Tailor Richie Brew
Production Carpenter Toby Molyneux
Production Electrician Jack Wills
Producer Emma Halstead
Production Photographer Jack Sain
Supported by Howard Gatiss, the John Hodgson Theatre Research Trust, Donald & George Society of Friends Award, Waterperry Opera Festival, Fortismere Music Centre, Fuel Theatre, the Albany Theatre, We Are Lewisham, Willi Richards & Chris Mazeika
Boy meets girl. Girl meets Satan. It’s a tale as old as time.
Defeated in battle and exiled from heaven, Satan burns in a lake of fire. History’s first sweet-talker tricks their way across the universe to seduce humanity, waiting in a garden.
In the grounds of the Master Shipwright’s House an epic new opera comes to Deptford’s hidden palace. Starring groundbreaking trans singer Ella Taylor as Satan and fresh from the Arcola’s Grimeborn, Juliet Wallace as Eve. Adapted from John Milton’s Paradise Lost, one of history’s most politically radical poems, this tale of sex and revenge resonates down the centuries, asking one simple question: who do you want? Who do you really, really want?
