Heart Shaped Vinyl
Heart Shaped Vinyl | Cast & Crew
Heart Shaped Vinyl is a comedy about five unrelated couples in Ireland over the course of 5 decades, from the 60’s right up to the present day. The play explores how the music we listen to effects the relationships in our lives and how our perceptions and affections can be coloured by the right song, in the right moment with the right (or wrong) person.
Doesn’t every song have the perfect moment and every moment have the perfect song?
- In 1962, a showband disintegrates amidst a break up, thrown shoes and pissed in tea flasks.
- In 1977, a punk musician has a terrifying encounter with an obsessed fan…whilst being hungover and tied to a chair.
- In 1988, a couple spending their first night together argue over the merits of the perfect music to suit the moment.
- In 1997, two people thrown together on a blind date use their musical choices to negotiate the awkwardness of their situation.
- In 2003, two school goers attempt to perfect the art of making a mixed tape without the songs being perceived romantically.
From The Beatles to The Flaming Lips, Van Morrison to Jeff Buckley, Marvin Gaye to The Cure, Dusty Springfield to The Ramones, Bob Dylan to The Smiths, Heart Shaped Vinyl looks at five decades of music through the prism of five relationships, the good, the bad and the ones where your records get violently smashed up.
We all listen to music, who doesn’t? And it reminds us of different things, people, places, kisses, heartbreak… it’s everywhere in our lives. Imagine we made a mixed tape of all the songs that triggered those memories? Heart Break Vinyl is kinda like that mixed tape…. but on a stage.
Yeah, let’s call it a theatrical mixed tape.
Performances
Heart Shaped Vinyl made its stage debut in Kilkenny in August 2006 in Cleere’s Theatre where it gathered strong word of mouth and reviews. From here it was subsequently performed in Maynooth, December 2006 by NUI Maynooth Dramasoc.
In 2007, the show returned to Cleere’s Theatre, Kilkenny selling out four straight nights from June 27th to June 30th. Heart Shaped Vinyl was revived for it’s final Kilkenny appearance as a one-night-only charity performance for Enable Ireland on Saturday, October 27th 2007.
It was next performed in the Granary Theatre, Cork by UCC Dramat in December 2007.
The performance rights for Heart Shaped Vinyl are available and all enquiries can be made to info@devioustheatre.com