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• Jonathan Besser: Danceabout 

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• decadence - celebrating 10 years of Besser and Bravura 

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Markheim is a man at the end of his tether. What started as a robbery gone wrong has ended in a murder – a murder that seems certain to force him to kill once more. And then kill again. Trapped, he is made to confront circumstances that have brought him to this terrible crisis. Just at the moment a mysterious stranger appears – but it soon becomes clear that this saviour is not all he seems. Is he the devil driving to further temptation and inevitable damnation? Or an angel come to save him from himself?

Loosely based on R. L. Stevenson’s macabre story, Markheim, a haunting story of guilt and redemption, Good Angel, Bad Angel is a chamber opera for three voices and four instrumentalists.

SYNOPSIS: The opera opens in an old curio-shop where the owner and his daughter are having a row. She feels unappreciated by her miserly father and says she’d prefer to spend Christmas Day with someone who cares for her – her boyfriend. She storms out leaving the old man to his gold and silver. A knock at the shop door. The shopkeeper is reluctant to open, but realising it could be a potential customer, lets in the caller. It is Markheim, a small time thief. He claims he wants to buy a Christmas present for his girlfriend. The old man shows him his stock. When the old man’s back is turned Markheim kills him. Believing that there is a hoard of gold hidden somewhere in the shop, Markheim is now free to look for it. Another knock at the door. Two drunks are wanting to visit the old man. Markheim doesn’t answer and tries not to panic. Finally the drunks wander off. Quite unexpectedly, a complete stranger – the visitant – enters from the back of the shop. He offers to tell Markheim where the gold is hidden. Fearing the unknown, Markheim refuses to answer. The visitant tells him the old man’s daughter is coming back to the shop to apologise for her outburst. If Markheim is still here when she arrives, he will have to kill the daughter as well to cover his crime. A dialogue follows with Markheim realising more and more the hopelessness of his position. The visitant keeps reminding him that the daughter will be arriving very soon. Markheim insists the money will allow him to start a new life and in a high dramatic solo passage declares that freedom is within his grasp. The murder is one-off, he claims, and from now on his life will be on the straight and narrow. A knock at the door. It is the daughter. The visitant says Markheim will have to let her in. Then he will have to kill her. Markheim opens the door and tells her that her father is dead. At first she thinks the old man collapsed and that the doctor has been called. Then Markheim shows her the knife. Realising what has happened she sings a moving lament for her father and begs for her life. The powerful trio that follows is interrupted by a knock at the door. It will be her boyfriend. The girl starts to scream for help. For Markheim this is the end. Or perhaps a new beginning.

• Cresswell: Good Angel, Bad Angel; computer-set 

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• Cresswell: Good Angel, Bad Angel 

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• Drummond: Impersonating Maurice and Marriage a la Mode  Year: 2004 

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Using animal imagery to take us into the heart of the human condition, Inland charts the fragile equilibrium between shepherd, flock, dog and hawk. Inland is a dance-theatre work conceived and choreographed by Douglas Wright. The work was commissioned by the 2002 New Zealand Festival with funding from Creative New Zealand.

• Palmer: Inland 

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• Palmer: Inland  Year: 2002 

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• Buchanan: It Began With a Pony; computer-set 

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• Dorothy Buchanan: It Began with a Pony  Year: 1998 

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• Dorothy Buchanan: Two Salon Operas  Year: 2003 

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• Drummond: Impersonating Maurice and Marriage a la Mode  Year: 2004 

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Soundtrack to the second half of New Zealand School of Dance 2004 choreographic season Intimate Space at Te Whaea Theatre, Newtown, where it was electronically defused through the sound system.

• New Zealand Selection 1 

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• Premieres 2004, Vol. 7  Year: 2003 

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• Stephen Gallagher: Mathematical Geography  Year: 2004 

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• New Zealand Music for Creative Dance 

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• Scullion: Peaks to Plains  Year: 2000 

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Quartet is based around the trials and tribulations of a touring string quartet, the Ithaca String Quartet, with the action being set on the West Coast of NZ before moving to the capital, Wellington, for the tour finale. The seven scenes are continuous, and explore the relationships of Penelope and Buddy (New Zealanders), Nadezhda (a moody Russian violinist) and Julian (a new-age American cellist).

• Ritchie A.: Quartet; computer-set 

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• Anthony Ritchie: Quartet 

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• Scullion: Springsound  Year: 2001 

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