Daniel Kitson: Polyphony
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Daniel Kitson: Polyphony

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I have written a play. It has a pretty epic scope, a relatively grand vision and somewhere in the region of twenty characters. It is, basically, a real humdinger. Unfortunately though, it is a script so ambitious, so demanding, so exquisitely detailed that handing an actor this text and putting them in front of an audience is like handing  a toddler a pint of coffee and putting them in front of a zipwire. It wont end well. So instead, I have pre-recorded each actor, in isolation, onto a separate tape, their fallibility erased with editing and their odious need for attention mitigated by the lack of audience. Leaving a litany of individual voices – each of them perfect, captured on a tape that will, when played back in precise unison, form a glorious theatrical polyphony. The play is perfect. The tapes are perfect. I just need enough people to press play. That’s all. 

 

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