1917, A Phantasmagoria

A new solo show by Michael Daviot, the actor-playwright of 2016’s five-star reviewed, twice award-shortlisted Nosferatu’s Shadow. *

A hundred years ago or yesterday? Strange and distant events, or strangely familiar? Feminism, Art, War, Pop Music, Revolution, Detective Fiction, Independence, Racial Violence, Lovesick Poets, Protests, Scientific Wonders. From Baker Street to Paschendaele; from Yeats pining in his Tower to a lynching in Tennessee; from the storming of the Winter Palace to the stylings of Harry Lauder; from Dadaism to the visionary genius of Nikola Tesla, let the Spirit of 1917 be your guide on a quirky and surprising tour of a watershed year.

Often satirical, occasionally harrowing, always thought-provoking, this new piece is dedicated to Michael’s mother, who would have been a hundred this year. Thinking about how to commemorate her led to a deeper exploration of the year of her birth and the making of this phantasmagoric ‘docu-play’.