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VIOLET – very much an opera for now and about now

Alice and Tom are amongst the most compelling voices in their respective
fields and this their first opera, developed at Snape Maltings as part of its
Jerwood Opera Writing Programme, promises to be something very special.

Alice Birch’s film work includes Mothering Sunday, Lady Macbeth, which won
the BIFA for Best Screenplay in 2017 and was nominated for Outstanding
Debut & Best British Feature BAFTA 2018. She has also written for TV,
working on Normal People (BBC / Element Pictures) adapted from the novel
by Sally Rooney. Alice has also worked on their forthcoming adaptation of
Sally Rooney’s CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS. 2022 will see her new TV
series, DEAD RINGERS, premiere on Amazon, on which Alice is the Lead
Writer and Executive Producer.

Alice spoke about how she likes to write…….

“I tend to sit on it for a very long time. I still write in the middle of
the night. I find that there are some brilliant writers who won’t write
a word until they’ve got a plan and I am definitely not one of those
writers. But it is there somewhere, I had the form in my head –
before I began to write it”.