Cummings&Goerings -- Tête-À-Tête Festival 2022

A Public School lesson. A mock trial in which one of the boys tries to clear his name having been caught, literally, with his hand in the cookie jar. Aided by a more than willing judge, he and his accomplice try all manner of underhand tactics until they eventually find a hapless fall guy. This operatic farce is an angry and absurd exploration of the ruling class’s apparently infinite and taught capacity for nepotism, impunity, and immorality. -Judge: Emily Thorner -Prosecutor/Scapegoat: Andy Shen Liu -Defendant: Julian Chou-Lambert Accomplice: Jacob Fradley Conductor: Otis Enokido Lineham Director: Sophie Daneman