Now there are hot shows and there are hot shows. Stereophonic is a hot show. It arrives at the Duke of York’s Theatre this month groaning under all the Tony awards from its time on Broadway, and posters for it are on virtually every billboard in London and all social media - well my algorithms at any rate, currently delivering me this play and 80s football bloopers – but what the hell actually is it?
“The show is about a rock band in 1976, who have been on tour since the release of their first album, are extremely tired, and are thrown into the studio to record a second album, which is not yet written,” says Zachary Hart, who plays Reg, the bassist, “We follow the writing and the recording of that second album, and the audience is a fly on the wall, witnessing seven creative people just smashing off each other.”
