Lost in the Stars

Winner of Alliance & Leicester Award for best Brighton Festival event.


“Top drawer Weill, in a brilliant set by Spyros Coscinas”

Evening Standard

Kurt Weill

UK stage première

May 1991 Brighton Festival
Gardner Centre, Falmer

NSO Orchestra, NSO Chorus,
Church of God of Prophecy Choir  
conductor Lionel Friend
director Keith Warner
designer Spyros Coscinas
lighting designer Mark Ridler
Production supported by
The Kurt Weill Foundation

Chorus leader/ Station Master/ Burton Richie Pitts
Answerer/ Absalom Kumalo Tony McPherson
Stephen Kumalo  Ewart James Walters
Grace Kumalo/ Rose/ Servant Elaine Grant
James Jarvis Godfrey Jackman
Arthur Jarvis/ Judge Saul Reichlin
Edward Jarvis Jonathan Taylor
John Kumalo/ Guard/ Parishioner Larrington Walker
Paulus/ Foreman/ Matthew Kumalo Richard Karlsson
William/ Hlabeni/ Johannes Pafuri Robert Eugene
Alex Matthew Selby
Linda/ Mrs Mkize/ Parishioner Sally Sagoe
Mark Eland Glyn David Fussell
Irina/ Parishioner Hyacinth Nicholls

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Hyacinth-Nicholls
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