Action Hero & Deborah Pearson
The Talent
Presentation
Book tickets
Tuesday 22 – Sunday 27 August
2.35 – 3.35pm
Summerhall – Venue access information
Theatre
Suitable for ages 12+
Audio described performance: Wednesday 23 August
Captioned performance: Thursday 24 August
Sensitive content: Flashing lights, loud/repetitive/high pitched/unexpected or overlapping sound, total audience blackout
Show Description
On stage is a small sound booth; inside sits a woman, alone. She is a voice-over artist. Off stage, in a space never seen but only heard, two disembodied voices ask her to conjure different voices for commercials, self-help audiobooks, meditation tapes, computer games, robo-calls… anything and everything. In amongst this post-pandemic vocal soup, is she the powerful protagonist in her own narrative? Or is she a cheap ventriloquist of capitalism’s audio debris, speaking into the void?
A new show by Action Hero & Deborah Pearson questioning human presence in the 21st Century. Where does the voice live? How will her voice live on, outside her body? What kind of ghosts will haunt us when we’re gone?
“I have never seen a show from these artists that didn’t make you sit up a little straighter and want to peer a little more closely” Lyn Gardner, Stagedoor
“Thrillingly funny and strange…Beckett’s hip, pop-culture savvy descendants” **** Time Out London
“Some of the most thrilling work currently being produced in the UK” The Guardian
The Talent by Action Hero & Deborah Pearson trailer. Footage by João Solano, edit by Dan Canham.
