A fictional British group is making a studio album in California between the summers of 1976 and 1977. You never see their lives outside of the recording studio in David Adjmi’s masterful play, but…
NEW YORK — Just before the end of playwright David Adjmi’s masterful “Stereophonic,” a three-hour dissection of ego, insecurity and the messy, messed-up gorgeousness of the creative process, I decided I’d had enough of these beautiful people in the recording studio with their complaints, their cocaine, their obsessive-compulsive neuroses, their phenomenal talents. A Zen-like “Let it be” had twisted in my skull to “Let me out.
Adjmi is hardly the first playwright to figure out that the expression of deep truths only flows from obsessive attention to detail: that’s true of his characters, who spend what feels like hours adjusting a rattling drum, and it’s true of Adjmi’s writing, Daniel Aukin’s phenomenal direction, David Zinn’s mind-blowing set, and the fearless acting from Sarah Pidgeon and Tom Pecinka, especially, but really an entire cast also made up of Will Brill, Andrew R.
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