Metta Theatre release EP and music video for new eco rock musical THE MINOTAUR

Award-winning theatre company Metta Theatre have released a cast EP and music video for new eco rock musical, The Minotaur.

Writer/director P Burton-Morgan and composer Felix Hagan reunite on a musical based on the Greek myth of The Minotaur - as a metaphor for fossil-fuel induced climate collapse and the inspiring power of community coming together to rise above denial, greed and devastation.

The EP features Janie Dee as Pasiphae, Arthur Darvill as Theseus, Zweyla Mitchell dos Santos as Ariadne, Neil McDermott as Daedalus and Robin Simoes da Silva as Icarus.

The music video of ‘Singing Our Song’ is choreographed by Mark Smith, with Andy Staples as Director of Photography, edited by William Reynolds, and with BSL translation by Deepa Shastri. The film features Sue Appleby as Pasiphae’(with vocals by Zweyla Mitchell dos Santos) and Natasha Julien as Ariadne (with vocals by Janie Dee).

Commissioned by digital support agency The Space and Metta Theatre, this iteration of the project has been created both as a work of art in its own right to raise awareness of climate justice, and also as a digital calling card to venues and producers interested in coming on board to develop the full stage musical, which will eventually be a large-scale musical for 5 professional performers and a community cast of 100.

The beleaguered mining community of Crete, under the controls of their tyrannical ruler Queen Pasiphae must continue to feed the capitalist beast in the heart of the labyrinth of mines, or face death. Young Theseus, an outsider who has finally abandoned his own mining career tries to impress the nature loving daughter of Pasiphae, Ariadne.

Despite Ariadne’s pleas to her mother to reconnect with nature and her own cold heart, trying to dismantle late-stage capitalism single handily is too much for any one individual, so with the help of inventor Daedalus and his striving ambitious child Icarus, they must convince the local community to work together to reimagine a new climate conscious future.

But once the belching smoke of the Minotaur has cleared and the lung-irritating coal dust has settled, they must overcome a far greater monster than the machine itself. Can the community succeed in the face of corporate capitalist greed? Things are heating up on Crete...

P Burton-Morgan said: “This year has shown even those on the fence that we can no longer ignore the threat of the climate crisis. This new musical unpacks some of the climate crisis complexities but most of all engages on an emotional level with a subject that sometimes feels too big to connect to. And as always there’s a seed of hope.”

The EP can be listened to here with the music video below…