Gala

Gala Dali, the wife of Salvador Dali, was a complex woman. The poet Paul Eluard said of her "Her gaze could pierce walls", and she was a muse to a generation of artists. Conversely, she was renowned for her cruelty, her selfishness and greed. By the late 1970s, the Dali's business empire was the diamond laden cash cow of the art world, and the Dali's held court over an excessive and debauched coterie of hangers on and opportunists.

Enter Jesus Christ Superstar, fresh from Broadway. For the first time, this rockin' Messiah steals away and melts Mrs Dali's stone heart. This show, a revival and expansion of a piece originally created for Tete a Tete Opera and previously revived at Arcola's Grimeborn Festival, is a chamber music-theatre piece about one day in the life of Gala and her idol, Jesus Christ Superstar. Written and directed by the renowned polymath Ergo Phizmiz, and starring singer / model Lottie Bowater (aka Depresstival) in their first full length dramatic performance, "Gala" offers a searing and satirical insight into the inner lives of the super rich of the art world in the age of disco.