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Hush: An Opera in Two Bestial Acts

Taking a Brechtian approach to fairytale and folklore, the libretto for Hush features five runaway children who embed their own stories of social and familial abuse in collective re-tellings of  ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’ and Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Nightingale’.

Written while Naomi Foyle was an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, Hush prefigures many of the themes of her later work.  Scored by Allen Cole, directed by Peter Hinton, and starring Holly Cole, Randi Helmers, Taborah Johnson, Jimmie Earl Perry, James Tait and Alisa Palmer, Hush enjoyed an extended run at Theatre Passe Muraille in Oct 1990.  It subsequently won three Dora Awards, including Best Musical Production.

 

 

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Novels:

Seoul Survivors

The eco-SF quartet the Gaia Chronicles. This series consists of:

Astra

Rook Song

The Blood of the Hoopoe

Stained Light

Poetry Collections:

Adamantine

The World Cup

The Night Pavilion

Poetry Pamphlets:

Grace of the Gamblers

No Enemy but Time

Red Hot & Bothered

Febrifugue

Verse Drama / Libretti:

The Strange WIfe

Hush

The Snow Queen

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