The Boatswain's Mate | Grimeborn & Regional Tour

The Boatswain's Mate, 2022

Grimeborn Festival at The Arcola Theatre | The North Wall Theatre, Oxford | Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh | St George’s Theatre, Great Yarmouth

Librettist & Composer: Dame Ethel Smyth (1915) | Designer: Ellie Roser | Lighting Designer: Catja Hamilton | Conductor: John Warner

Cast: Shaun Aquilina, Robert Winslade Anderson, Beca Davies, Philippe Durrant, Josephine Goddard, Devon Harrison (cover), Naho Koizumi (cover), Dominic Lee (cover), John Upperton

Band: Emily Earl, Nina Kiva (cover), Meera Priyanka Raja, John Warner

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5 - Beca Davies and Philippe Durrant in The Boatswain's Mate - image by Lidia Crisafulli.jpg

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★★★★★
“rumbustious vigour and subtle sensitivity… Josephine Goddard is a revelation”
The Stage, Edward Bhesania

★★★★
“perky, intelligent and well-articulated… Spectra Ensemble deserve great praise for believing in this piece, reinventing it without changing the emotional geometry, and finding the right tone to make a serious feminist point while decking it all out with plentiful humour and incident”
British Theatre, Tim Hochstrasser

“superb singing and characterisation”
Opera Today, Claire Seymour

“deliciously sassy”
The Guardian, Flora Wilson