| Published | May 2025 |
| Publisher | Theatre Communications Group |
| No of Pages | 160 pages |
David Adjmi’s Stereophonic, with music by Arcade Fire’s Will Butler, is a play that looks and feels like a rock documentary on stage.
Set in the 1970s, it follows a band, never named, but echoing Fleetwood Mac, as they lock themselves in a recording studio to make an album. What should be a triumph quickly spirals into a storm of egos, addictions, and fractured relationships.
The music is thrilling, but the play isn’t just about rock and roll. It’s about how art is made under pressure, how ambition collides with love, and how creativity can be both destructive and transcendent.
Written with forensic detail, Stereophonic captures the claustrophobia of the studio, the rawness of collaboration, and the mess of being human.
More than a play about music, it’s a drama about people chasing greatness, and the cost of the sound that defines an era.