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The Carrier Frequency, Impact Theatre's collaboration with the novelist Russell Hoban, was one of the Eighties' most outstanding and influential theatre shows. It is set in a post-nuclear world, where brutalised steel and concrete structures rise from a giant pool of water. It depicts six figures lost in an absurd and exhausting ritual, trying to revive a departed civilisation. Despite it's harrowing subject matter, the show retains moments of ludicrous slapstick and verbal wit. When it exploded on the world in 1984 it caused a sensation.
As part of Birmingham's Towards The Millenium 80's Festival, Stan's Cafe invited a number of guest artists to help revive the show. Working from a documentation video, using the original soundtrack and text a version of The Carrier Frequency was staged fifteen years after it's premiere.
Many of the issues raised by this restaging were discussed in a seminar Archaeology, Repertory and Theatre Inheritance. Live Art Magazine produced a substantial programme for the production including a series of essays.
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