Lost Soul Music attempts to save the Musical at Pleasance Theatre this month. Holly Williams takes a look at who the heck these rabble-rousers are.
White Rose Theatre hail from York and had a runaway success with TONY! The Blair Musical at the Edinburgh fringe. It proved that musicals can be funny, sharply satiric and have cracking tunes all at the same time. They're continuing to push the boundaries of that much maligned art form and dare to claim Lost Soul Music is their attempt to “save the musical”.
They might well manage it too – Lost Soul Music sounds innovative in both form and content. There are six shows for you to choose from, or watch all for a mammoth theatrical experience. Some shows are tragic, some comic; some are monologues. In others you can expect razzmatazz; and all are about losing your soul, in an array of darkly humorous ways. Forget cheesy uplifting final numbers: these shows promise no happy endings.
The young company picked up a raft of awards and starry reviews for TONY! and premiered Lost Soul Music as part of the Edinburgh International Festival Award-winning Red Room project in 2008. It should be interesting to see how the company is developing, as the material has since been significantly revised. With the same team behind it – Chris Bush writing and Ian McCluskey composing – Lost Soul Music is likely to have the smarts as well as songs.
Lost Soul Music runs at Pleasance Theatre from 23rd February to 14th March 2010.
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