Universal Arts helps produce theatre shows for the international market. During our 20 years experience in working with international companies, we have realised that often theatre productions, which are very successful in their own countries, have much lower impact internationally. This often happens due to differences in audience perception of performing arts in different parts of the world.
One of our strengths is to recognise those differences and provide professional help to companies and producers to adjust their shows for the international market. Our latest success is Venezuelan musical “Venezuela Viva” launched in Edinburgh Festival Fringe with sales of nearly 10,000 over the three week festival followed by tours of Holland, USA, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
We have also co-produced and produced a number of touring shows including musicals such as Growing up With the Carpenters and two versions of Opera Galactica. We also seek to work with Producers and Artistic Directors from around the world looking to collaborate on the creation of new productions from our range of successful musicals and drama texts for production in their own languages. We are in the process of preparing a two-language (English and Spanish) co-production of “Contract” by Slowomir Mrozek in Malaga, Intimacy by Michael Almaz in Poland, and we are in negotiations on co-productions of Opera Galactica in Poland and Germany. We are also involved in a two-language production of Human Remains by Jonathan Bonfiglio in Gibraltar.
For more information please contact us on +44 (0)131 478 0195 or by e-mail: admin@universal-arts.co.uk
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“Opera Galactica”
by Richard Lewis
A multi-media comic musical ribbing the Star Wars genre
while simultaneously sending up opera’s best-known arias.
Widely recognisable tunes with the big hits from Magic Flute,
La Traviata, Madam Butterfly, Carmen etc.
4 characters (soprano, tenor, baritone, bass baritone), 4 walk-ons
“House of Usher”
by Richard Hansom, music by Warren Wills
Musical in style of “The Rocky Horror Show” based on EDGAR ALLAN POE’S “The Fall of the House of Usher”
10 characters (6 male, 4 female), 5 –10 walk-ons /choir
“Intimacy”
by Michael almaz
freely adapted from one of the first short stories
by JEAN PAUL SARTRE
Set in Paris, at the end of 1930s it is a play about
love, sex and passion
2 female characters
“Underground Man”
(Cry From The Depth)
by Michael almaz
freely adapted from an episode in
FEODOR DOSTOEVSKY'S “Notes From The Underground”
The action takes place in St. Petersburg, in the 1840's
2 characters (mail and female)
“Dialogue With A Dying Man”
Based on “ The Death of the Marquis de Sade”
by THE MARQUIS DE SADE dramatized by J. G. Abel
Paris 1788 the play is set in the basement of a convent,
serving as a hospital.
3 characters (2 male, 1female)
For more information, texts and scores please contact Tomek Borkowy
0n +44 (0) 131 470 0195 or tb@universal-arts.co.uk |
