Mary Motorhead/TRADE at REDCAT

A powerful double bill by Irish composer Emma O'Halloran.LA Opera's multi-season collaboration with the groundbreaking Beth Morrison Projects continues with a double bill of extraordinary West Coast premieres by Irish composer Emma O'Halloran.In the compelling monodrama Mary Motorhead, a convicted murderer invites us to hear her secret historythe disappointments and betrayals that shaped her lifein the hope that it may shine some light upon the darkness of her actions. Mezzo-soprano Naomi Louisa OConnell stars as the woman pushed to the edge by circumstance, now finding the road back to herself. TRADE is the story of a rent boy and his closeted client in working-class Dublin, both trapped within their own lives. Meeting secretly in a cheap hotel, they wrestle with their own inner demons and their need for each other. Three-time Tony nominee Marc Kudisch (star of LA Opera's Wonderful Town and anatomy theater) portrays a family man whose world is crumbling apart, with international recording artist Kyle Bielfield as a young hustler determined to take charge of his future.