ONE A LOT
ONE A LOT
The news has been terrible for months, years: scary news all the time from every direction, every continent, even from the silly little towns you’ve never heard of. But like most of us, she chose not to look too closely. A deep dive into the state of the world felt like a one-way trip with no return. Surely the “official people” had a plan…
“And then one day the sky went orange. Beautiful color. I love burnt orange… but in an interior design kinda way. Preferably not in the sky.”
One a Lot is an apocalyptic drama about a lone survivor who finds herself in a concrete basement, recounting how she watched the world burn. With her voice, she builds a universe of loops and songs: a sonic end of days.
About the makers
Amanda Payne is an English-Dutch librettist and performer based in Amsterdam. Her work explores musicality in speech, combining her vocal practice with text-driven theatre. She creates language-centered performances in which rhythm and repetition shape character and narrative. Working across playwriting, poetry, opera and performance, she develops hybrid forms she describes as “spoken operas” – through-composed dialogue that blur the boundary between speaking and singing.
Amanda trained in Music Theatre at Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam and earned a Master’s degree from the Re:master Opera program at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam in 2024.
Her performance work includes performing in musical theatre productions in the Netherlands and Belgium with companies such as Stage Entertainment, Theateralliantie and Nanoek, as well as independent music theatre and performance projects across theatre and visual art contexts. Alongside her stage work, she also works as an actor in film and television.
credits
Performance, text, composition: Amanda Payne
Final direction: Esmée Begemann
Costume design and scenography: Caz Egelie, Hildur Elísa
Lighting design: Erik van de Wijdeven
Sound design: David Schwarz
Sound technician: Constantijn Houtkamp
Poster image: Elena Štrok
Photography: Martin Hulsman
In co-production with: O. Festival for Opera. Music. Theatre., Club Gewalt
The news has been terrible for months, years: scary news all the time from every direction, every continent, even from the silly little towns you’ve never heard of. But like most of us, she chose not to look too closely. A deep dive into the state of the world felt like a one-way trip with no return. Surely the “official people” had a plan…
“And then one day the sky went orange. Beautiful color. I love burnt orange… but in an interior design kinda way. Preferably not in the sky.”
One a Lot is an apocalyptic drama about a lone survivor who finds herself in a concrete basement, recounting how she watched the world burn. With her voice, she builds a universe of loops and songs: a sonic end of days.
About the makers
Amanda Payne is an English-Dutch librettist and performer based in Amsterdam. Her work explores musicality in speech, combining her vocal practice with text-driven theatre. She creates language-centered performances in which rhythm and repetition shape character and narrative. Working across playwriting, poetry, opera and performance, she develops hybrid forms she describes as “spoken operas” – through-composed dialogue that blur the boundary between speaking and singing.
Amanda trained in Music Theatre at Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam and earned a Master’s degree from the Re:master Opera program at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam in 2024.
Her performance work includes performing in musical theatre productions in the Netherlands and Belgium with companies such as Stage Entertainment, Theateralliantie and Nanoek, as well as independent music theatre and performance projects across theatre and visual art contexts. Alongside her stage work, she also works as an actor in film and television.
credits
Performance, text, composition: Amanda Payne
Final direction: Esmée Begemann
Costume design and scenography: Caz Egelie, Hildur Elísa
Lighting design: Erik van de Wijdeven
Sound design: David Schwarz
Sound technician: Constantijn Houtkamp
Poster image: Elena Štrok
Photography: Martin Hulsman
In co-production with: O. Festival for Opera. Music. Theatre., Club Gewalt
