Photo Flash: First Look at The King's Head Theatre's CARMEN

Ahead of press night tonight production photos are released from The King's Head Theatre's radical new zero hours take on the world's greatest tragedy, 'Carmen', in a new English version by Ashley Pearson and Mary Franklin.

The Olivier Award nominated producers of La Traviata, La bohème and Tosca present a vivid, compelling and devastatingly powerful take on Georges Bizet's masterpiece.

Carmen works zero-hour, minimum wage jobs on the frontline of Britain's crumbling industry. Jose falls madly in love with her, but soon his passion morphs into something uglier, and far more troubling, and Carmen realises she might have made a fatal mistake...

Sung in English, and blending stark emotional realism with some of the world's most beloved music, this highly original new production examines toxic relationships in a society on the brink of collapse.

Carmen is at the King's Head Theatre to Saturday 9 March.

Photo Credit: Nick Rutter