BCMG at Cheltenham Music Festival

Following David Sawer’s widely acclaimed 2009 Sound Investment commission Rumpelstiltskin, The Lighthouse Keepers is a claustrophobic tale for two actors and an ensemble of nine musicians. Based on a 1905 French play, it’s set at the top of a fifty-metre high lighthouse, six miles out to sea. With a storm raging outside, a secret is revealed between father and son just as a ship approaches the rocks…

BCMG premieres this new work alongside Samuel Beckett/Morton Feldman’s intensely moving Words and Music, where Joe (Words) and Bob (Music), struggle to formulate expressions on themes including love and age under the command of the mysterious Croak.