Event Date
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Saturday 5th July
Our Facility, Birmingham
19:00
An evening celebrating Erik Satie 100 years after his death.
The evening will include:
– The performance of Memoirs Of An Amnesiac – a theatre show made by Stan’s Cafe in 1992 revived with the original cast for one night only!
– Piano Music – Satie repertoire performed live!
– Dada Buffet – eat before you come!
– Bonus Material – to be announced!
Dress Code: 1920s Paris (if you wish)
Erik Satie composed some of the world’s most famous and sublime piano music. He was a true radical, wildly ahead of his time and notoriously eccentric. He died on the 1st July, 1925.
On 11th April, 1992 a fledgling theatre company called Stan’s Cafe premiered their second show, Memoirs of an Amnesiac, a strange, dark and funny biographical play about obsession, delusion, identity, hero worship and Erik Satie.
To honour the 100th Anniversary of Satie’s death Stan’s Cafe are re-staging Memoirs Of An Amnesiac, with its original cast – older, weaker, wiser, stronger.
“Eccentric loner Eric Smith has built an Erik Satie museum in his Birmingham bedsit. He enjoys showing imaginary visitors around his collection of Satie related treasures, narrating fake film footage of his hero and interviewing himself.
The boundaries between Smith’s interior world and the walls of his room are becoming very blurred and the questioning voices echoing round his head difficult to ignore.
Ultimately Socrates may be the only person who can provide the answers.”
