Polyphony

Daniel Kitson

- Venue: Roundabout
- Category:
- Age Suitability: 14+
- Times: 12.15 (80 mins)

I have written a play – a real humdinger. It has a pretty epic scope, a relatively staggering vision and somewhere in the region of 20 characters. Each of which has been performed and recorded in isolation, producing a litany of individual voices – each of them perfect, captured as a single track that will, when played back in precise unison, form a glorious theatrical polyphony.

The play is perfect. The recordings are perfect. I just need enough people to hit play. That’s all.

Reviews

  • "Daniel Kitson is possibly one of the most important artists working in British theatre" - THE LIST - Link
  • "It’s brilliantly funny, playing neatly on Kitson’s Eeyore-ish personality, and he smartly stage-manages the back-and-forth dialogue with the recorded voices." - THE GUARDIAN - Link
  • "It is self-referential, meta as all heck, and absolutely magical. " - THE SKINNY - Link
  • "you can't fault Polyphony's execution nor Kitson's relentless quest to find new ways to tell stories" - THE INDEPENDANT
  • "a dramatic orchestration as wry as it is profound" - THE HERALD

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