Deborah Coughlin and Gaggle: Women Make Music

Leading on from her reworking of the forgotten WI opera The Brilliant & the Dark at The Royal Albert Hall – “Vivacious, visceral, spectacularly indignant wall of sound” 4/5* The Guardian – Gaggle creator and director Deborah Coughlin has been awarded the PRS for MUsic Foundation Women Make Music grant to write From the Mouth of the Cave/Lysistrata.

The incredible critically acclaimed weird all-female choir Gaggle have just released their debut record on Transgressive/V2. And performed it at a SELL OUT show at the Village Underground. Now they want to rip the album apart, rework it, add to it, and with some help from friends, amazing guest stars and an unsuspecting “audience”, create a very timely retelling of Lysistrata in the weirdest musical ever.

Lysistrata, in the ancient Greek comedy of her name, tried to stop a crippling never ending war by camping around the banks and using sex as a weapon.

This won’t be an ordinary performance or gig. Gaggle is a choir of unauditioned singers and the line where the audience ends and the show begins will be destroyed from the off. We’re all in the land of Lysistrata.

And there’s no home that makes more sense for a totally immersive musical than the incredible Old Vic Tunnels.