The Song Company presents Mind Over Matter / The Conservatorium / Community and Alumni / Events / The University of Newcastle, Australia

A zany and toonful chamber opera, Mind Over Matter is a chamber comic opera for 5 singers, speaking piano duet and computer operator, by the Company’s Artistic Director, Antony Pitts.

The story is set (not far) in the future: the world has been taken over by a giant computer corporation called BABEL, run by a man known simply as “the Boss”, and, as usual, someone is trying to hack into its central server. BABEL’s corporate headquarters has 127 floors and just two lifts (with personalities of their own). There is a Guard who rarely ventures off the ground floor, two suspicious-sounding characters called Rime and Reezon, two identical briefcases, an executive called Mabel all-too-open to the algorithmic power of Artificial Intelligence, and Anna herself – dizzy at the apex of an impossible love triangle. What else could possibly go wrong?

The music is inspired by the melodic pop of the 1980s and the program begins and ends with arrangements of some classic hits from Joe Jackson’s Steppin’ Out to Wang Chung’s Dance Hall Days..

Tickets: the.song.company/Mind-over-matter/

For more information, please contact: The Song Company at mail@songcompany.com.au or 02 8272 9500