PJ Harvey to Score New Play The Nest

PJ Harvey, who released The Hope Six Demolition Project earlier this year, has announced details of her latest project: the score to a new translation of Franz Xaver Kroetz’s play The Nest. Harvey composed the score herself and, in London, recorded it with James Johnston. It marks the latest in a run of collaborations between Harvey and director Ian Rickson, who previously enlisted her for productions of Hedda Gabler, Hamlet, and Electra. Starring Caoilfhionn Dunne and Laurence Kinlan, The Nest will premiere at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre from October 1-22, before a run in London, at the Young Vic’s Maria Theatre, from October 28 to November 26. The play questions “the moral cost of an increasingly materialistic society” and “draws out the sharp relevance of this urgent and timely two-hander,” according to a press release.

Listen to Harvey’s recent, non-album track, “Guilty”:

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