Did Sid Vicious and Kurt Cobain ever meet...
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Until October 3, 2009, the Trafalgar Studios in Whitehall, London, is home to the play Kurt & Sid. Written by Roy Smiles, directed by Tim Star and featuring Danny Dyer and Shaun Evans, Kurt & Sid revolves around a fictional meet-up between Kurt Cobain and Sid Vicious.
From the official synopsis:
"April 1994. A man sits alone in an attic extension on the cusp of becoming a Seattle suicide statistic. This man is no 'number and name' to be reported in a local newspaper. He is an icon, albeit a reluctant one. The frontman of Nirvana. is about to pull the trigger of the gun in his hand and join the leagues of rock star deaths down the ages. Without invitation, Kurt has the curious company of a man purporting to be the Sex Pistol's Sid Vicious, Kurt's hero.
Whether he is a ghost, a figment of Kurt's imagination, an hallucination, a dream, or a Punk impersonator remains to be seen as the two musicians, trade quips and quotes about the emptiness of fame, a mutual understanding of drug addiction and self-destruction."
What stops me from going to see this play is the fact that I'm too financially challenged at the moment to be able to afford the ticket. But really, would I want to go and see this? Because, although of course I never knew Cobain or Vicious personally, and as much as I am aware this play does not present itself to be anything beyond the work of fiction that it is, the thought of any profound conversation taking place between two people both totally wasted on drugs is - in my head - perhaps a bit too far-fetched after all.
[Click here to visit the official information on the Trafalgar Studios website]
[Click here to read a critic's and his readers' reviews of the play]
Comments (2)
Been some great reviews in the local press - I hate theatre...maybe a film?
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i knew them both and therefore am way too rattled by the concept of this fictional fantasy to even consider going.
intellectually, i can see how & why a play such as this would be written. i saw the same conceit in a play written by a co-worker of mine about the current queen elizabeth and elizabeth1, which was pretty awesome. but they're historical figures of a different color...
i declined to see "sid n nancy" until i had talked to gary oldman about the movie (i worked on "rosenkrantz & guildenstern are dead" in which oldman co-starred) and asked him about how he got into the character of sid. and still... there's the matter of the script.
i wish someone WOULD check this out and debrief us