Angel’s Bone; music by Du Yun, libretto by Royce Vavrek, is an interesting concept. It deals with human trafficking through the medium of two angels who fall to earth and find themselves in the hands of a couple; one of them a formerly trafficked person, who exploit them for sexual/commercial purposes. It’s dramatically quite effective, well constructed and the libretto has a certain poetry to it. It played at Harbourfront Theatre this last weekend in a co-pro by Sound the Alarm Music Theatre, Loose Tea Music Theatre and Array Music.
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