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MICF: Velvet

A delightfully dorky musician (Brendan Maclean) unwittingly stumbles into a dazzling, golden orgy of bass and sequins (director Craig Ilott’s vision of a contemporary disco temple) and embarks on a spiritual odyssey in pursuit of a mysterious musical deity (Marcia Hines).

Velvet is unapologetically indulgent entertainment, honouring the ethos of celebration and excess that typified the Golden Age of disco. Through the disorientating, primal power of light and sound it transports it’s audience to a surreal liminal place where conventional perspective and limitations are suspended and the most unusual and unexpected events are more than possible.

 

Jack Beeby

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