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Bath Fringe 2024

" [...] this will make a great diversion at festivals of drama

and indeed music and opera. Bis!"

" I was awed by your beautiful singing voices!"

Sarah Thurstan, Steering Group of Folkestone Live! 2024

Welcome to Backstage!


Here, you will find the 'Ladies of the Chorus' getting ready for opening night of a small-scale adaptation of Verdi's Macbetto.  


If you're a regular opera-goer in this region, you'll have seen these three before as Cigarette Girls, Geishas, and Nuns - this time, they are the Witches!*


Despite their numerous appearances over the years, would you recognise them out on the high street?  Or know their names if you ever met them?


Who really are the people you only seem to see 'upstage'?


Written by and starring Bridget Hardy, Penny Rossano and Samantha Houston, this brand new play is (possibly) the world’s first Sit-Op-Com, or ‘Situation Operatic Comedy’!  Set in the theatre broom cupboard, next to the building’s only toilet, this story draws on the ladies’ 20 years+ in the opera industry, charting the ups and downs of their journeys over one-act with humour, heart, and a sprinkling of live opera singing!


*There are only 3 Witches due to budgetary constraints...

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Saturday 12th October 2024

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Sunday 20th October 2024

3pm + 5pm


Destination: 'Old Hag'
Destination: 'Old Hag'
Photo: Dilpesh Patel @dylkpatel
Bridget Hardy
Bridget Hardy
Photo: Dilpesh Patel @dylkpatel
Penny Rossano
Penny Rossano
Photo: Dilpesh Patel @dylkpatel
Samantha Houston
Samantha Houston
Photo: Dilpesh Patel @dylkpatel
Destination: 'Old Hag'
Destination: 'Old Hag'
Photo: Dilpesh Patel @dylkpatel

Mission Statement


Our mission is simple: We aim to tell the stories of the people who go unnoticed...unappreciated...uncredited.


With the people in the foreground making so much noise - the 'stars' of their various industries -

we often forget about the people in the background who make it all work with little to no fanfare. 


We never seem to know their names or hear what they have to say ... until now.