Alice Zawadzki: Bag of Bones
Origins Unwrapped | Artist in Residence: Alice Zawadzki
Alice Zawadzki presents a new version of her acclaimed chamber opera, Bag of Bones, an immersive work of inherited memory, Eastern European folklore and cultural severance, blending strings, accordion, keyboards and voice.
As part of her Kings Place residency, Alice Zawadzki presents this immersive work, compelled into existence by inherited memories and cultural severance. Less a concert than a ritualistic act, it seeks to cast off the ghosts of the past – often tenderly, sometimes violently.
Evoking the folklore of Eastern Europe through a vivid landscape of movement and colour, Zawadzki’s original score is performed by an ensemble of strings, accordion, keyboards and voice, blending contemporary classical, folk and jazz traditions. Through the specificity of this narrator’s story, something universal emerges, and it is in this spirit that audiences are invited to lay down some of their own ghosts and make way for something new.
This event will last approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes, including an interval.
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Plan your visit
Getting here
Kings Place is situated just a few minutes’ walk from King’s Cross and St Pancras stations, one of the most connected locations in London and now the biggest transport hub in Europe.
Our address is:
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG.
The Venue
Our performance spaces are situated on the lower ground floor. Hall One, Hall Two and St Pancras are located in level -2, reached by stairs, escalator and lift from the ground floor entrance level.
Event Times
Door times indicate auditorium entrance times only. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the Kings Place seating areas, gallery-level art, canal-side terrace, café, restaurant and bar throughout the day and evening.
- Our events begin promptly at the advertised start time. Typically, there is no support unless otherwise stated.
- We recommend arriving in good time before the performance. The Hall doors will open 30 minutes before the performance to allow time to take your seats, or to choose a space for standing shows.
- Latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance where possible
Access
We aim to make your visit to Kings Place as comfortable as possible. For more information about the accessibility of Kings Place, including details about our Access Scheme, please visit this page.
If you would like to discuss your access requirements with a member of our team, please get in touch with the Box Office team at info@kingsplace.co.uk.
Food & Drink
Rotunda Bar & Restaurant
Rotunda, situated on the ground floor of Kings Place, offers a unique dining and drinking experience alongside Regent’s Canal. The concert bar in the venue foyer will also be open for select events.
Green & Fortune Café
Recently re-furbished and now open with a new look, the Green & Fortune Café is open for selected concerts. Serving hot and cold food and drinks, including sandwiches, salads, soup, stew and a pie of the day, alongside a choice of cakes made by the on-site bakery team. See here for selected concert dates and standard opening hours.
Alice Zawadzki
Vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Alice Zawadzki becomes a Resident Artist at Kings Place with a series of ambitious projects including newly commissioned work throughout, that explore folklore, ancestry and the stories we inherit.
Rooted in Alice’s Polish heritage yet drawing on traditions from across Britain and the rest of Europe, the residency weaves together music, storytelling, ritual and myth, blurring the boundaries between classical, jazz, folk and music theatre. Across three distinctive productions, Alice revisits ancient tales, pagan traditions and folkloric figures, using them as a lens through which to explore memory, identity, belonging and our relationship with the natural world.
From the immersive music theatre of Bag of Bones to the elemental sound world of Replace Your Gods, and the playful winter folklore of The Turning, each project reveals Alice’s unique ability to connect contemporary audiences with stories that have travelled across generations and borders, with a focus on collective transformation, healing and uplift.
Reviews
‘A genuine original’ The Guardian