opera

As some of you may know, Lise-san and I are in the Australian Children's Choir. Childrens. I don't know. Whatever. Anyway, we went on a tour to New Zealand in March this year, and while we were there we had loads of time in the tourbus with a stupid little man that tormented us with stupid sayings like 'Kia Ora children' or however it's spelt. The point is, we had too much time. So we created an opera. It's title is 'You Know It's A Bad Day When You Wake Up To Stravinsky'. When I have it here, I will put up the Full Plot of it, and assorted bits of dialogue (yes, dialogue, it has almost no music in it. And it's an opera, not a play). For the moment your eyeballs can feast on the wonder that is...THE DIAGONAL SCENE!

Picture this: a stage full of men and women in skin coloured body suit things. Some are on the ground, some are in the air hanging to ropes, some are laying on boxes, the rest are being boring and are standing up. You can not see any of this though, because the lights aren't on and the curtain is down. Suddenly it starts to rise, and lights start to flash and do assorted other nifty things. The smoke machine starts to work overtime as the people on stage start to chant the words 'I', 'am', and 'diagonal' one after the other. As they do so, they start moving into positions where their bodies are slanted (ie diagonal). A little girl comes on and starts spinning. She is very cool and is played by Millie. Yay, we like Millie. This goes on for a while. And that, ladles and gentlespoons (ha ha boom boom....DAD JOKE!) (that thought is mildly disturbing as I'm neither a man nor am I middle aged) is the diagonal scene.