Controversial performer Kim Noble's latest project is every bit as surprising as his previous projects.
Noble, who won the Perrier Best Newcomer Award with Stuart Silver in 2000, has previously made waves with shows about suicide and his mental health issues. His ground-breaking multi-media performances have been sexually explicit and graphically transgressive.
Wild Life FM, running at London's Unicorn Theatre from January 12 - 20, is devised by Noble, Belgian stage director and designer Pol Heyvaert and the cast of nine young people, with musical direction by Jakob Ampe. The press information says: "This show is not going to be what you expect. It’s not a play. It’s not a gig. It’s also both of those things."
The new production is described as "a vivid musical exploration of the modern teenage psyche seen through the lens of a live radio show," which "elegantly evokes the confused raw tension of teenage life as the show navigates the worrying aspects of this time through music, conversation and on air phone-calls, all framed within a radio show."
Like Noble's previous work, it will also be painfully honest.
Created organically from the experiences of the performers and the songs they have written, Wild Life FM filters the restless urgency of these young people into a moving, raw exposition of what it is like being young today.
Noble has also previously appeared in a number of television comedies including Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, The Mighty Boosh and Man to Man With Dean Learner.
Wild Life FM runs from January 12 - 20 and is suitable for adults and 14+. Buy tickets here.
