Radio Delirio
A piano recital featuring only the page turner. A radio program hot on the trail of a whistleblower hiding in plain view of the audience. Radio Delirio imagines a classical concert taken over by the man no one was even meant to notice. While dutifully minding the score, the page-turner weaves his own show over the music: a news exposé, cum manhunt, cum chronicle of a precarious sense of self. The language of investigative news is employed – warped and digressed from – counterpointed by a layered, hyperkinetic physical score. Drawing on the culture of surveillance and whistleblowing scandals, Radio Delirio presents a tragicomic take on assimilation, derailment, and fear of inconsequence.
Written and choreographed by: Alessandro Magania
Performed by: Alessandro Magania, Mickey Solis, Kim Macron
Directed by: Geoff Sobelle
Music performed by: Jae Kyo Han
Production design by: Simone Peretti
Lighting by: Dallas Estes
Sound by: Andrew Maillet
Stage Management by: Emma Johnson
Produced by: Sandra Garner, Lingua Franca Arts
Radio Delirio was developed over the course of a series of rehearsal phases and through a performing arts residency at YADDO and P.A.R.T.S. A work-in-progress segment was presented in Fall 2016 as part of Little Theatre at Dixon Place and as part of CUNY’s 2016 Prelude Festival.
This production of Radio Delirio was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
