Kissing The Shotgun Goodnight

I produced Christopher Brett Bailey’s music theatre show KISSING THE SHOTGUN GOODNIGHT, which premiered in London at Ovalhouse in 2016, and toured the UK.

clouds of haze and crumbling walls of transcendent noise, KISSING THE SHOTGUN GOODNIGHT is a neo-noir fever dream and 120 decibel suicide note. a juggernaut of music-theatre. three musicians, piano corpses and the sci-fi poetry of a disembodied voice. a nocturnal meditation crooned into the swollen abyss. soothing drones and crushing metal, swamps of feedback and pools of reverb, klattering rhythms and throbbing bass. a return to the womb for those who wish they could crawl back inside mother to hide.

Supported by Arts Council England. Originally commissioned by Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Cambridge Junction, Ovalhouse, Theatre in the Mill, and Theatr Iolo. With thanks to Hackney Showroom.

Photo: The Other Richard