A moving and poetic expose of one of classical music's true mavericks - Antonio Vivaldi - The Angel and the Red Priest is a rich fusion of theatre and music by one of Adelaide's most exciting independent companies.

Venice, 1705. Vivaldi - the Red Priest - toils away within the walls of the Ospedale della Pieta, an orphanage for girls. On the verge of greatness, the budding composer needs one final achievement to prove his virtuosity and release him from the priesthood once and for all. He finds it in an unfortunate girl blessed with the voice of an angel and composes a mass for her. But can Agata carry the growing aspirations of Vivaldi and the orphanage?

The Angel and the Red Priest is the latest work from award-winning playwright Sean Riley and features the glorious instrumental and vocal music by Antonio Vivaldi performed by a soprano and quintet of baroque musicians.

Oddbodies Theatre Company
Oddbodies Theatre Company has emerged as a vital and much admired creative force on the South Australian theatre landscape, presenting a series of high calibre, critically acclaimed new works.

Founded in Tasmania in the mid 1980s, this small project-based collective relocated to Adelaide in 1990 and has presented an award-winning mix of Australian and international works. These include the SA premiere seasons of Genet's The Maids; The Sea by Edward Bond; Lipstick Dreams by Helen O'Connor and Simon Hopkinson; Vita! - a fantasy by Sara Hardy and Timothy Daly's Kafka Dances.

Since 2003, the company has focused solely on the development and production of new works by award winning playwright/director Sean Riley including the rural family saga The Last Acre which premiered in 2003 and Significant Others, a multi-generational expose of Australian cultural icons and their families which was short-listed for the 2004 Patrick White Playwrights' Award.

In 2006, the company premiered Beautiful Words, its much anticipated refugee trilogy for young people. Winner of the Jill Blewett Playwrights' Award and short listed for the Patrick White Playwrights' Award, the work was performed to enormous critical and public acclaim, winning The Advertiser Critics' Award for Best New Play and The Adelaide Theatre Guide Award for Best Drama.

Contact:
Lee Cumberlidge
Arts Projects Australia - Melbourne
Suite 8, Level 6
55 Swanston Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Tel +61 3 9663 2198
Fax +61 3 9663 6766
Mob 0421 355 590
lcumberlidge@artsprojects.com.au