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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="044fd5a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Paul Barker: Composer</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Paul Barker: Composer"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Nye 1</B>   |   <A HREF="id154.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nye 2"><U>Nye 2</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id155.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nye 3"><U>Nye 3</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id156.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nye 4"><U>Nye 4</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id157.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nye 5"><U>Nye 5</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id163.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nye 5"><U>Nye 5</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="045d2b03.jpg"> <div> Tour:</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id153.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nye 1"><U>What is </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id153.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nye 1"><U>Nye Tand, Eh?</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id154.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nye 2"><U>Nye Tand, Eh?</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id154.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nye 2"><U>at the BAC</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id155.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nye 3"><U>Backgound</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id163.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nye 5"><U><B>Video and Photos of Performances</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id163.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nye 5"><U><B>Other Stage Works</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id157.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nye 5"><U>Supported by</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#555555" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>N</B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Arial" ><B>y</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>e</B></FONT><B> T</B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Arial" ><B>a</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>n</B></FONT><B>d</B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Arial" ><B>,</B></FONT><B> </B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>E</B></FONT><B>h</B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Arial" ><B>?</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>           </B>is primordial opera, where voice and theatre dominate the stage. There are no words to distract you from the action, and there may be no instruments competing with them - or if you prefer, a resplendent full orchestra completes the spectacle. Either way it is raw, naked vocal theatre.</div> <div> The story concerns seven people who meet in an everyday business situation. But all is not what it seems: each of them simultaneously inhabits another reality, a parallel alternative life. This night job manifests itself through their changing appearance and their voice. Whilst still coming to terms with this duality, a third choice becomes clear for each of them revealing yet another possible facet of their reality. </div> <div> <I>Nye Tand, Eh?</I> will last about 90 minutes and is derived from a tradition of theatre, opera, circus entertainment and <I>commedia del arte</I> that embraces tragedy and comedy side by side, with high-art and low-art, spiritual and animal, dream and reality. </div> <div> The title reflects this bi-polarity and is a phonetic transformation of <I>Night & Day</I>. It should be represented variously according to the country it is performed in:</div> <bR> <div> <I>¿No Cheid, Ya?</I>      (Spanish)</div> <div> <I>No teddi, ah?</I>          (Italian)</div> <div> <I>Nach tund, ag?       </I>(German)</div> <div> <I>Nouî ijou, our?</I>        (French)</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>