Opera North - Skin Deep
- By:
- David Sawer, text by Armando Iannucci, conducted by Richard Farnes
- Management:
- Opera North, Komische Oper, Bregenzer Festspiele and Royal Danish Opera
- Cast:
- Geoffrey Dolton, Janis Kelly, Heather Shipp, Amy Freston, Andrew Tortise, Mark Stone
- Director:
- Richard Jones
- Design:
- Stewart Laing, also costumes
- Lighting:
- Mimi Jordan Sherrin
- Choreography:
- Linda Dobell
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Search Amazon for Opera North - Skin Deep items Search for tickets at TicketmasterArmando Iannucci's libretto for David Sawer's new operetta satirises the cosmetic surgery industry. Plastic surgeon Dr Needlemeier's Swiss clinic is dedicated to "putting right what Nature got wrong". His daughter will only marry her boyfriend Robert if he has some work done. Needlemeier beautifies receptionist Donna, with whom he is having an affair, while his wife Lania constantly redesigns herself. Hollywood star Luke Pollock has one of his testicles surreptitiously removed by Needlemeier to add to his secret elixir of youth, made up of human body parts. It's a darkly comic fantasy, with identities confused as faces are swapped and individuals duplicated, though its progress towards an ineffective third-act climax seems convoluted and over-populated. Despite Sawer keeping the orchestra down, not all the text comes across, and what does lacks the bite of The Thick of It...
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