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UNLEASHED

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English

Synopsis

A verbatim opera based on interviews with gay men about their sex lives, focusing on "hard sex" and themes of violence and desire. The libretto combines fragments of these interviews with transcripts from the legal case Laskey, Jaggard, Brown vs. United Kingdom (1990), a trial where men were prosecuted for consensual violent sex

Composer

Philip Venables

Lyricist / Librettist / Playwright

Nick Blackburn

Year of composition/publication / premiere

2012

Genre

Opera

LGBTQAI+ category

Gay, Queer

Level of centrality

Main character

Characters

Kris Belligh, Ken Christiansen, Richard Dodwell, Martin Lissola, Simon Prag, Stephen Upshaw

Voice type

Pronouns

he/him

Publisher / Rights holder

Where to buy / access the work

Performance rights

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