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Home / Compositions / Parabola

Parabola (1989)

20 minutes
for 2 actors, bass clarinet (= penny whistle), percussion & piano

Text: Barbara Blackman (poems)

First performance by Richard Moore and Annette Tesoriero, Bronwen Jones, Daryl Pratt and Lisa Moore, School of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, 7 September 1990

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Ford's Parabola [is] a 1989 theatre piece on Icarus with a lithe, catlike pounce in Barbara Blackman's text. Actors Richard Moore and Annette Tesoriero deliver the words well (just a fraction too stagily in Tesoriero's case), but the visual theatre of the piece is apparently to be found in deliberately exaggerated physical movements by the instrumentalists (bass clarinettist Bronwen Jones, pianist Lisa Moore and percussionist Daryl Pratt). One way or another, this piece sustains its length.

Roger Covell, Sydney Morning Herald

Instrumentations: Stage, Stage - music theatre

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