BAFTA-winning composer Jessica Curry’s brooding, majestic score to the ground-breaking videogame Dear Esther is performed live as part of an ‘immersive’ play-through of the game, blurring the boundaries between film, narrative, screen-based art, contemporary classical and electronica. A deserted Hebridean landscape, a book written by a dying man – explore a haunting, deserted, island shrouded in mystery. Starting on a small beach, only brooding cliffs and a small lighthouse in sight, BAFTA-nominated narrator Oliver Dimsdale takes you through the game, journeying from a desolate Scottish island, to a car crash on the M5, to a crisis of faith of a guilty heart, to the lost shores of a dreamed shoreline into a final ascent through the waters of madness to the release of flight. We expect this to be nothing short of stunning.

Tue 29 Nov at Birmingham Town Hall, at Town Hall, Victoria Square, Birmingham B3 3DQ. 7.30pm, £22.50. https://www.thsh.co.uk/event/dear-esther

Tue 28 Nov
Words:
Hana Borrowman
Published on:
Wed 1 Nov 2017