Paco Pena - Quimeras
Directed by Jude Kelly
Fri 2 Nov 8pm
Butterworth Hall: £19.50; £23; £26.50 + booking fee
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Human beings, in pursuit of a better life, are inclined to think that beyond the frontier there is a wonderful, promising world. And they may indeed find some succour for their longing; but in the end, very often their dream notion proves to be a chimera, an imagined beautiful reality that turns out to be false, crude and tragic.
Flamenco guitarist Paco Peña presents a unification of Spanish and African music and dance in Quimeras, a celebration of immigration and shared cultures.
The show, directed by Jude Kelly, will try to bring to life the journey of one or several people longing for a better life beyond the frontier, creating situations along the way that reflect good and bad aspects of their dreams, the reality of their lives and the interconnection with the people on the other side of the borders they cross.
“Peña’s own guitar playing is, as always, breathtakingly beautiful.” The Telegraph
To book tickets in the stalls, please click on “buy tickets” and then click the central balcony on the venue map. From this page, you can select “stalls” from the drop down menu, which will then take you to the seating plan where you can select your tickets.
Butterworth Hall
With a maximum capacity of 2000 standing or 1500 seated this concert hall has an outstanding natural acoustic and is the home of our International Concert Series, as well as the majority of our music gigs and big name comedians. Butterworth Hall has recently had a £6.9 million redevelopment and reopened in autumn 2009 .
