by Jenifer Toksvig (book & lyrics)
and Dominic Haslam (music)
and Dominic Haslam (music)
Coppelia is loosely based on E. T. A. Hoffman's gothic short story The Sandman, which inspired Sigmund Freud to write an essay on Das Unheimliche - The Uncanny.
'Heimlich' means home-like, familiar. 'Unheimlich' means eerie, strange. The Uncanny is the supervening of an earlier unconscious event upon a later one: the subject experiences something as that which is both strange and familiar, odd but intimate, alien but all too close...
Coppelia is the story of a man who is due to be married to the perfect wife when he falls in love with the perfect woman...
The development process has included a reading for John Caird, a workshop at the Bridewell Theatre in London, and a reading at the Actors Centre in London through Mercury Musical Developments' collaboration with ANMT.
