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“Faster is aural cinema, this is a show that will make you hear things you’ve never seen before.”

Patrick Marmion, Metro, Critic’s Choice ★★★★

Faster

2003-2005 BAC, Lyric Hammersmith, UK Tour, Frankfurt & Brits Off-Broadway Festival, New York

Inspired by science writer James Gleickʼs bestselling book, “Faster, or the Acceleration of Just About Everything”, the show is about the acceleration of everyday life. The show takes the themes of Gleickʼs non-fiction polemic and explores them in a funny and emotionally punchy story of bright young things with a nagging sense that they are losing something vital in the rush. With twenty-four scenes in seventy minutes and instantaneous changes of location, Faster takes you on a thrill ride through the bustle of the modern world. Will, Ben and Victoria are embroiled in an age-old love triangle, played on a bare stage at inhuman speed. They go through their day, getting up, showering, rushing through breakfast and hurrying onto the tube while the musicians – using synthesizers, percussion and guitar – dictate the tempo of the characters actions with music and sound effects, creating a rich and often comical landscape. Shifting between anguished lyricism and driving rhythms, the sounds of Faster create what one reviewer called ʻaural cinemaʼ. As the day of a crucial advertising pitch approaches, the characters struggle to cling on to their friendship, their jobs and their sense of who they are.

“The most astonishingly confident debut show I have seen in a long time, all the thrill of a rapid ride at the fun-fair, as well as the ache you feel in your heart when you know that something is missing in your life.”

Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, ★★★★