Photo: Maria Baranova
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 expose, 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.
Alessandro Magania‘s Radio Delirio was developed in part through a Performing Arts Residency at YADDO. Work-in-progress excerpts were shown at the September 2016 edition of Little Theatre @ Dixon Place and at CUNY’s Prelude Festival in October 2016. Radio Delirio recently had its World Premiere, running June 13-23, 2018, as part of The Performing Garage Presents series and is currently looking towards a future run.
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
Past collaborators who have contributed to the project’s development and whom we’d like to particularly thank for their time and work: Steve Cuiffo, Glenn Fitzgerald, Shae d’Lyn and Ben Williams
**This production of Radio Delirio has been supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
**The Performing Garage Presents is supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
