Category: HOfB Terminus
Music in The Terminus
How the dramatic genius of five nineteenth century composers has been re-commissioned to find a new, contemporary audience. The music in the play is taken from piano works by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt and Mussorgsky. Whereas this might seem to offer a limited choice, the opposite is true. This repertoire has a prodigious selection of…
The Era of The Terminus:
fixed in time yet racing backwards and forwards. The era of the play is shaped by an extraordinary set of circumstances. After years of revolution, dynastic upheaval and war across Europe, full-blown capitalism has started to establish large-scale manufacturing industries and lay down infrastructure. This puts advancement within reach of a mass of people regardless…
