Thought I’d give you a bit of warning about a play called Static at the Rep in a few weeks time.

Blurb -

“Static tells the story of a young woman who has lost her husband. Discovering a compilation tape that he made but never gave her, she becomes convinced it contains a secret message. What could the tape mean – and is he trying to communicate with her from beyond the grave?

Static fuses music, dialogue, sign language and audio description to explore our complex response to love and loss. It is steeped in a love of music from Sonic Youth to The Smiths, The Ramones to The Rakes and from Girls Aloud to the Goodies (we’ve all got to have our guilty pleasures).”

It seems to cover the same themes as Kitson’s C90 - love, loss, and compilation tapes - which I saw last year (and the year before), though the focus is on trying to interpret the compliation itself - rather than the poignancy of giving, receiving and then abandoning one.

Nethetheless, I can count the number of plays about compilation tapes on one hand and if you’ve ever tried to over pick the meaning of a compilation CD it might click with you.

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