Alistair McGowan’s Erik Satie’s-Faction

theatre drama
BAFTA winning comedian and Olivier award nominated actor Alistair McGowan stars in a unique, witty, moving and often surreal show about the unique, witty, moving and often surreal French composer, Erik Satie.

Satie was born 150 years ago and is best known for his 'Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes' (beautiful, simple pieces now regularly heard in adverts and on film soundtracks).

He was an extraordinary character who is almost as famous for his way of life as for his music: he wore the same outfit for eleven years to save himself time in deciding what to wear well before Mark Zuckerberg thought of the idea. He always carried an umbrella to keep off the sun as much as the rain. He let no-one into his flat for the last 27 years of his life.

The Beckettian piece (authored by McGowan) is set in 1916, with Satie at his lowest ebb, unable to leave his flat, haunted by his past, fearful for his future and tormented by the loss of his one and only love (beautifully sung by Charlotte Page).

Click here to listen to the BBC Radio 4 programme in which Alistair McGowan travels to Paris on the trail of his musical hero.


WHY? Join Alistair McGowan as he plays several of Satie's well known, ground breaking piano pieces and delivers some of his never-before performed articles and poems

£15

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