Composer to Attend UK Premiere of HOTEL FOR CRIMINALS

Drama Desk winning and Tony/Grammy Award nominated composer Stanley Silverman is to attend the UK premiere of Hotel For Criminals co-written with pre-eminent avant garde theatre maker Richard Foreman.

Silverman will attend the press performance on 20th October and will take part in an exclusive Q&A after the performance. This marks the UK premiere of Hotel For Criminals and the first time a Foreman piece has been performed professionally since 1996.

Stanley Silverman is an award-winning American composer, who has enjoyed several decades in both the classical and popular music worlds, as well as in theatre and film. As a winner of the Obie, Drama Desk, Naumburg, and Koussevitsky Foundation Awards, and both a Tony and Grammy Award Nominee, Silverman has worked both On and Off-Broadway with stage luminaries including playwrights Richard Foreman, Arthur Miller, Anthony Burgess, and directors Mike Nichols, Arthur Penn, Michael Langham and Dan Sullivan.
He has collaborated with well-known pop artists and musicians, such as James Taylor, Paul Simon, Sting and Elton John. His classical compositions have been performed by Pierre Boulez and the New York Philharmonic, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, Michael Tilson and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Hotel For Criminals is a brilliantly sophisticated and funny reworking of Louis Feuillade's silent film phantasmagoria that chronicles the foul deeds and the mysterious powers of Fantomas and his vampire gang. The audience enters a subterranean world where no boundary, no moment, no person is ever safe or certain. Reality is bent to the whims of Fantomas's evil imagination and the literal twisted to the point of outrageous.

This production marks the UK premiere of Richard Foreman and Stanley Silverman's surreal operetta.