Rose English Ornamental Happiness
Ornamental Happiness - a show in song and circus was made in response to Lost In Music.
Take your seat inside a small but perfectly formed jewel box. In this crystalline salon setting, seven consumate performers lift a shimmering vessel brimming with all the promise of the sublime.
Written and directed by Rose English in collaboration with Luke Stoneham (composer), Simon Vincenzi (designer), Chahine Yavroyan (lighting designer).
Performed by Claire Bessent, Rose English, Jennifer John, François Testory, James Orrell and members of the Zhejiang Acrobatic Troupe of China
The whole piece distils a delicate, disciplined beauty
The Sunday Telegraph
Ornamental Happiness is a celebration of the purity of unadorned performance and capacity for its essential spirit to resonate within us
Realtime, Australia
Commissioned by Liverpool Culture Company for the Unity Theatre in association with Liverpool Biennial