A collective of musicians and actors will dramatise the dark tale of Lou Reed’s album Berlin at the King’s Arms in Salford on July 3 as part of the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival.
The mix of live performance and film is collaboration between the Manchester Musical Arts Collective, the EPI and Zodiac Films, performed before a limited audience.
Gino Brandolani plays Jim and Carrie Lawson is Caroline. Their fatally flawed romance is set to music by Nina Antonia, with narration by Rob Gray.
"We are recreating the Berlin album but expanding it beyond the four walls of the music,” explained Gino.
“The two protagonists, Jim and Caroline, are involved in a sad tale of domestic abuse, drug abuse, prostitution, general misery and misogyny.”
Carrie, who was in Durutti Column, said: “in some respects it is the story of my life. It reflects the reality of living with somebody violent, abusive and bringing children up in that environment. It is cathartic.”