Dancers Hester Glock, Susannah Dirckze-Taylor, Laura Broome and Elly Beamen-Brinklow "A swan neck'd maiden in the sea was bathing, washing there her Sunday dress"
In the fourth scene the wedding celebrations are in full swing as the bride is handed over to the bridegroom’s family. The wedding guests are full of advice for the young couple: ‘you must feed her and clothe her and bid her work’ and ‘shake her like a pear tree and love her’.
The dancers have played with the balance between control and support within a relationship, exploring the traditional roles of male and female in society.
Laura Broome and Elly Beamen-Brinklow
The opera ends as the married couple go off to the bed which has been warmed for them by two of the wedding guests, with the final words spoken by the young husband to his wife: “Let us live in happiness so that all men may envy us”.
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