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Dear Esther videogame to be performed with live score
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 21 July 2016
Screenings of films with live music are two a penny these days. Videogames though? Not so much. But the Barbican Centre in London will buck that trend in October with the staging of a live scoring of ‘Dear Esther’ by composer Jessica Curry.
Originally released by The Chinese Room in 2012, ‘Dear Esther’ is not your usual videogame. Opening with a man standing on a lonely and desolate Hebridean island, which may or may not be a representation of his grief, the game travels through various abstract scenes.
The live performance will see the game played through in full by writer Dan Pinchbeck, accompanied by Curry and a live band, with its narrator Nigel Carrington also performing his contributions in person.
Have you got your head round all that? Well, it all takes place on 14 Oct and there are more details here.
You can watch the original trailer for the game here:
