Unreal Cities - T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'

T.S. Eliot’s 'The Waste Land' is widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century.

In 2015 the Eliot Foundation invited director Adrian Dunbar to stage the work in a new multimedia setting with specially commissioned score by composer Nick Roth.

The piece takes as inspiration the Sibylline Fragments - throwing letters in the air and making sense of them as they fall.

Director: Adrian Dunbar
Composer: Nick Roth

Voices:

Anna Nygh
Orla Charlton
Frank McCusker
Stanley Townsend

Musicians:

Alex Bonney - trumpet / electronics
Nick Roth - saxophones / objects
Alexander Hawkins - piano
Tom Herbert - bass
Simon Roth - drums

Filmed on location at the October Gallery London, November 2019

Video by Louise Boer
Additional Camera by Kevin Nolan
Recording by Alex Bonney

With kind permission of the T.S. Eliot Foundation / Faber & Faber

Thanks to Elizabeth, Chili and all at the October Gallery
Special thanks to Kathelin Gray and the Institute for Ecotechnics