The singing of a ‘Celtic coven’ will be heard round the halls of Mull and Oban in March and April as An Tobar tours its production Our Carnal Hearts: ‘a brilliant, grubby, morally questionable celebration of our darkest impulses to compete and conquer’. This new Hebridean co-production with An Tobar and Mull Theatre reimagines this contemporary classic through a Gaelic lens, rooting a primal ritual to all consuming envy in the aesthetic traditions of ancient Britain. Directed by the artistic director of An Tobar and Mull Theatre and Arch 468 Rebecca Atkinson-Lord, it’s a show ‘filled with women unashamed to show us their ugly bits’, its publicist says. Our Carnal Hearts is a place to whoop at our own fragility and delight against our better nature, a toast to our competitive spirits and a rumbling dance for the ugly gutter-tramping parts of our souls. NO_T08_Our Carnal Hearts_01Caption: Written by award-winning theatre maker Rachel Mars, with original music by Louise Mothersole, the choral piece Our Carnal Hearts is ‘a gleeful, thrilling and murky celebration of envy, competitive spirits and all the times we screw each other over’.

Source: The Times February 19, 2022 18:42 UTC