GATECRASHES: Only An Octave Apart
by Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo

“A profoundly moving performance… the banter was spontaneous, intimate, and hilarious”

TIME MAGAZINE

Only An Octave Apart is presented in association with Creative Partners Productions and Justin Vivian Bond, Anthony Roth Costanzo, and Zack Winokur. Performed by Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo

This is a joyous, surprising and hilarious night of music, revelling in everything strange and beautiful. Bond and Costanzo express their queer identities through unique interpretations of classical, pop, and hybrids of the two (think Purcell’s Dido’s Lament meets Dido’s White Flag) making the gendered history of the music their plaything, carving new pathways between opera and politically subversive cabaret.

Please note that this production contains strong language, strobe lighting and haze effects. 

Tickets from €15.

Post-show Q&A: We are delighted to announce there will be a post-show Q&A on Tuesday 5th September with the stars of ONLY AN OCTAVE APART, Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo, hosted by the fabulous Panti Bliss.

About the show

Only An Octave Apart is Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo’s joyous and surprising musical fantasia, reveling in everything strange and beautiful in the coexistence of contrasts – from Purcell’s 17th century aria Dido’s Lament to Dido’s early 2000s hit White Flag, from Autumn Leaves to The Waters of March.

Co-created and directed by Zack Winokur, Only an Octave Apart celebrates the historical and the hysterical, from countertenor to counterculture. These concerts are created with a dream team of collaborators including musical director Daniel Schlosberg, set designer Carlos Soto (Solange, Robert Wilson, Lucinda Childs) and lighting designer John Torres (Taylor Mac, Robert Wilson, Hamlet directed by Yaël Farber). In Only an Octave Apart, Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo express their queer identities through unique interpretations of classical, pop, and hybrids of the two, making the gendered history of the music their plaything. Whether invoking mythology or nature, romance or radical compassion, Bond and Costanzo carve new pathways between opera and politically subversive cabaret – two art forms that, as Bond puts it, “have been kept alive for generations by queens”- and allow old works to reveal surprising new stories.

Age recommendation: 14+

Please note this production includes haze and strobe lighting.

Tickets will be available with a 10% discount, strictly subject to availability. Tickets will be available in-person from the Gate Theatre Box Office.

Terms, conditions and restrictions apply. 

Terms and conditions

• Rate applicable to groups larger than 6.
• Rate available strictly through Gate Theatre Box Office only.
• Not valid in conjunction with any other offer.

Tickets will be available for just €20 for performances from September 6th, strictly subject to availability. Tickets will be available on the day of performance only, in-person from the Gate Theatre Box Office.

Terms, conditions and restrictions apply. ID required.

Terms and conditions

• Rate applicable to those aged 30 and under on the day of performance
• Rate available on presentation of appropriate ID at the Gate Theatre Box Office only
• Valid on selected seats at performances from September 6th
• Strictly subject to availability
• One ticket only per valid ID
• Not valid in conjunction with any other offer

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