From Scotland with Love

Their show Les Amoureux is coming to the Marine Theatre on Friday, March 26th. An acclaimed dance, opera, and theatre performance, Les Amoureux (The Lovers), is based around Angela Carter's story The Lady of The House of Love.

In her only garment, a faded, tattered once-wedding dress with sunglasses to shield her from the light, the Countess, neither alive nor dead, is a reluctant huntress, condemned forever to slake a thirst that will not let her rest. 

She turns over a tarot card.  For the first time ever, she has drawn Les Amoureux.  Her keeper and the shadows of her domain bear witness to the arrival of the handsome young soldier...

Les Amoureux is a story of love, life and death, a twisted Sleeping Beauty with the faded opulent feel of a Gothic fantasy and a strong Eastern European quality. 

Combining dance and physical theatre with opera, voice and design, Les Amoureux is a sensual tale of purity and damage, creating a world where time stops and never ends, expressed through physical grace, explosive, characterful movement, whispers, discord, and beautiful, soaring singing.

Les Amoureux is directed and choreographed by Chordelia's Artistic Director, Kally Lloyd-Jones. She recently directed Katya Kabanova for Scottish Opera and was Movement Director/Choreographer for Scottish Opera as well as the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. The cast is made up of Kally Lloyd-Jones, Linda Duncan McLaughlin, Amelia Cardwell, Freya Jeffs and opera singer, Damian Thantrey, who is currently performing in A Little Night Music at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris and recently sang in Scottish Opera's Die Fledermaus and A Night at the Chinese Opera.

The tour includes Dundee, Edinburgh, Peebles, Falkirk, Cumbernauld, Dunfermline, St Andrews, Stornoway…and Lyme Regis.

Les Amoureux is at 7.30pm on Friday, March 26th at the Marine Theatre.

Tickets cost £10, available from Lyme Regis Tourist Information Centre on 01297 442138, online at www.marinetheatre.org.uk or on the door.

 .ff