When Justie sends a misguided tweet she employs her colleague Talon to try and fix the mounting backlash on social media. Meanwhile his wife Finna, a famous lifestyle vlogger, begins an online affair with recluse Freyja. ‘#echochamber’ explores how we ‘make mistakes’ online inspired by Jon Ronson’s book ’So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed’. This Anglo-Icelandic opera invites audiences to tweet their ‘deepest, darkest secrets’ onto a live twitter feed as we contemplate: “where do we live nowadays? On or offline?”
Director and librettist: Ingunn Lára Kristjánsdóttir
Composer: Michael Betteridge
Actors: Rosie Middleton, Ísabella Leifsdóttir, Jónína Björt Gunnarsdóttir and Ívar Helgason(Icelandic production) and Tom Guest (UK production)
Pianist: Matthildur Anna Gísladóttir
Technical director: Arnar Ingvarsson.
#echochamber is a twitter opera. Past productions:
Tjarnarbíó theatre, Iceland: 25th May - 31st May 2018
Middelton Hall, Hull: 10th August 2018
53Two, Manchester: 14th & 15th August 2018
The Place, London (for Tete-a-tete opera festival) 17th August 2018
