David James Brock

Theatre, Opera, Poetry, Film

Toronto Canada

David James Brock is a Canadian writer of opera, theatre, poetry, and film.
Author of poetry collections Everyone is CO2 and Ten-Headed Alien.
Co-creator of Breath Cycle, an opera for cystic fibrosis.

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Opera (Glasgow): The Sloans Project


After selling out at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Sloans Project will return to its home in Glasgow this June. Composer Gareth Williams and librettist David James Brock created this site-specific promenade opera inspired by Glasgow's oldest pub, Sloans. The audience moves through the 250-year-old pub and encounters a series of scenes telling stories of love, loss, revenge and forgiveness.

Commissioned by NOISE Opera with development support from Tapestry New Opera, The Sloans Project premiered at the 2011 Merchant City Festival (Glasgow) and was remounted for the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2012 Sound Festival (Aberdeen), and Tapestry New Opera's 2010-11 Season (Toronto).


Earlier Event: May 23
Reading (Ottawa): Factory Reading Series
Later Event: June 15
Reading (Hamilton): Wolsak and Wynn with Mansfield Press