Desmonda Cathabel & Dylan Wood: Doomed Lovers Duets
About the Event
Reunited after their run as Eurydice and Orpheus in the West End’s Hadestown, Desmonda Cathabel and Dylan Wood are no strangers to playing doomed lovers together. Expect a rich selection of songs and duets spanning musical theatre, folk, country and beyond: the perfect evening for proud members of the heartbreak club.
Desmonda Cathabel (Jesus Christ Superstar, Mamma Mia: I Have a Dream, Disney’s Aladdin) and Dylan Wood (Once, Orphans, Moorcroft) come to Kings Place for one night only to recreate their electric chemistry in Desmonda & Dylan: Doomed Lovers Duets, following their sell-out run at The Crazy Coqs.
Also joined by their Hadestown co-musical supervisor George Francis on keys and lead guitarist David Delarre on guitar.
This event will last approximately 90 minutes, without an interval.
About David Delarre
David Delarre is a musician, composer and music educator whose work spans theatre, folk, blues and contemporary music. He has performed extensively throughout the UK and Europe with award-winning singer Eliza Carthy MBE, platinum-selling artist Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, and most recently BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner Steve Knightley. Broadcast credits include live sessions for BBC Radio and television appearances with Jools Holland.
Theatre credits include Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Two Noble Kinsman (Shakespeare’s Globe), Hex (National Theatre), and Hadestown (National Theatre and West End).
About Dylan Wood
Dylan Wood trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His theatre credits include Once (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Hadestown (West End); No Love Songs and The Singer (Dundee Rep); The Bunker and 549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War (Wonder Fools); Sherlock Holmes and the Poison Wood and Teddy (UK tour and Watermill); Orphans (National Theatre Scotland); and Close Quarters (Sheffield Theatres).
Television credits include Dog Days, Unfair, Midsomer Murders, Sister Boniface and Casualty.
About George Francis
George Francis is from Liverpool, UK, and is Co-Musical Director of Hadestown in the West End, and Music Supervisor of Fame (Theatre Royal Plymouth) and The Little Big Things (Amsterdam).
His work as Musical Director (MD) includes Hadestown (Amsterdam); Amélie (West End); and Whistle Down the Wind (WhatsOnStage Award nomination) at the Watermill; Now Is Good and The Wizard of Oz at Chester Storyhouse; A Thong for Europe at Liverpool’s Royal Court; The Commitments (UK tour); and Fiddler on the Ro