British Music & Comedy from Berlin

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REBECCA & COLIN – This multi award winning and multi-lingual duo can be described as one of the world’s most unusual double acts. Together with “Joe”, Rebeccas´ 18th century cello, they perform spoofs of everything from Pop to Opera and Jazz to Bollywood.

British Music & Comedy from Berlin

CarringtonBrown

REBECCA & COLIN – This multi award winning and multi-lingual duo can be described as one of the world’s most unusual double acts. Together with “Joe”, Rebeccas´ 18th century cello, they perform spoofs of everything from Pop to Opera and Jazz to Bollywood.

the FIRST BREXIT operetta in the world

Turn-a-Dot.

5/5
"Rebecca Carrington coaxes from her cello, named Joe, an astonishing variety of sounds. She beats, plucks and bows it. Carrington and Brown are also fabulous singers. Rebecca as a dramatic soprano, but also a great jazz singer. Colin can do everything from heroic tenor to a murmuring bass. As great comedians, they whip Turandot, the actually tearful opera together, into ten hilarious minutes" Carrington-Brown’s Operetta, Turnadot is sometimes in German and sometimes in English but it is always understandable!"
Berliner Morgenpost
German Newspaper in 2020

The first and smallest Brexit Operetta

Premiere May 2019 at Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

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2 Acts . 2 Actors . 1 Cello – Puccini re-imagined

Sometimes nothing happens for decades and then a whole century passes within a week. All of a sudden, the events are overturning and you don’t even know where is up or where is down! So it is with Carrie Puddleton and Lawrence Longstaff, the cellist and the chorus singer who are the only two members of the Royal Imperial Victorian Opera Company from good old England, who managed to reach mainland Europe. Brexit claims more victims!

The two are therefore confronted with the mammoth task of performing Puccini’s great opera “Turandot” alone. An impossible task, one might think. It is inevitable that things will go wrong…

The music and comedy duo Carrington-Brown, alias Rebecca Carrington and Colin Brown, together with the ingenious cello Joe, have spun a turbulent operetta that not only deals with the hair-raising motifs of the old Persian fairy tale, but also targets current European politics.

Music
Carrington-Brown
Olaf Taranczewski

Text
Carrington-Brown
Simon Callow
Arthur Büscher
Olaf Taranczewski
Amber Schoop

Final Draft
Anneke Janssen

Director & Choreographer
Arthur Büscher
Frederic Zipperlin

Booking
Natalia Semiletopulo

 

Publisher
Bosworth Music Sales

Video Production
SLFILM, Sebastian Leitner

Commissioned by
Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

5/5
“Adorable, fun, a triumph of fantasy and deeply English madness!”
Simon Callow, CBE
Actor, Director, Writer
5/5
“It is so beautiful makes me want to cry! It is fun and strong and I wish I were a festival director as I would definitely book it!”
Stephane Foenkinos
Director, Writer, Casting Director