Book description
Left alone in an unfamiliar land, Kate struggles to silence the noises
inside her head and begins to question her own sanity. In London,
Michael listens carefully to a conversation recorded twenty years ago.
Can he hear a third silent person on the tape? In a small Russian town,
Irina searches desperately for her missing friend, piecing together
fragments from his life. From urban noise to rural emptiness, through
rationalism to spirituality, from Russia to the UK, Silence is the
latest collaboration between the celebrated theatre company Filter and
RSC Associate Director David Farr. Silence premiered at Hampstead
Theatre, London, on 12 May 2011, produced by the Royal Shakespeare
Company. Filter's sheer boldness of invention and its groundbreaking
use of sound, makes it a company to watch Evening Standard Founded in
2001 by actors Oliver Dimsdale and Ferdy Roberts and musician Tim
Phillips, Filter is a company that brings together actors, musicians,
technicians, designers, writers and directors to create new works of
original theatre as well as thrilling incarnations of existing texts,
resulting in a platform for some of the most exciting theatre work
around. Filter's highly acclaimed productions include Faster (BAC/tour),
Woyzeck (NT Studio/Lyric Hammersmith), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (NT),
Twelfth Night (RSC) and Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith).
