The Promise/Meet the Philips
The Cockpit Theatre, NW8 8EH , [Venue Details]The Promise and Meet The Philips are a pair of chamber operas created by emerging composers from the Royal Academy of Music.
The evening brings two worlds onto one stage: a vivid, fast-moving programme where different musical languages, cultural perspectives and theatrical styles collide.
In "The Promise", cultural erasure becomes a live struggle between imposed and remembered, where singing itself becomes resistance.
In "Meet The Philips", an entire marriage unfolds in one domestic space, with the TV as the couple’s third wheel: comic, invasive, intimate, and quietly devastating.
Come to the first show this evening for two more operas for an evening moving between folklore, psychological drama, political urgency, and domestic comedy, The Breaking Point offers opera with pace, contrast, and sharp theatrical images. It asks what happens when the forces around us — nature, language, competition, media, love — stop staying in the background and start to break the sense of what we are.
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Admission
Min: £7.50
Max: £27.50
Special: Pay What You Can
Age restriction: All ages, but mostly adults
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The Promise/Meet the Philips
Saturday, 19 Sep 2026 @8.30pm
The Cockpit Theatre, NW8 8EHMore Information
The Promise and Meet The Philips are a pair of chamber operas created by emerging composers from the Royal Academy of Music.
The evening brings two worlds onto one stage: a vivid, fast-moving programme where different musical languages, cultural perspectives and theatrical styles collide.
In "The Promise", cultural erasure becomes a live struggle between imposed and remembered, where singing itself becomes resistance.
In "Meet The Philips", an entire marriage unfolds in one domestic space, with the TV as the couple’s third wheel: comic, invasive, intimate, and quietly devastating.
Come to the first show this evening for two more operas for an evening moving between folklore, psychological drama, political urgency, and domestic comedy, The Breaking Point offers opera with pace, contrast, and sharp theatrical images. It asks what happens when the forces around us — nature, language, competition, media, love — stop staying in the background and start to break the sense of what we are.
Admission
Min: £7.50
Max: £27.50
Special: Pay What You Can
Age restriction: All ages, but mostly adults
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