1977

 A Volcano Original™. Love. Politics. A big movie. And some very loud drums.

It’s 1977. The four men who made this show are six, twelve, eighteen and twenty-nine. A thriving year for plane hijackings, and a busy period for the terrorists of the Red Army Faction. The Sex Pistols and the The Clash released their seminal albums, and with Franco gone, Spain’s fascist regime gasped its last breaths. The Vietnam war, of course, was over, although its meanings for American culture and global politics were far from closed.

Volcano’s 1977 begins on the set of Coppola’s notoriously troubled Apocalypse Now. As Coppola, Sheen and the crew go mad in the jungle, we transport you to a very different event taking place on the other side of the world, where a conference is gathering that aims to take the temperature of a “dying century”. Among the thronging intellectuals there are two very particular young delegates. Their lives and stories unfold, with shattering consequences, against the twin backdrops of the conference rooms and Coppola’s film.

1977 is on tour Autumn 2010. See links on right. The Swansea date is a promenade performance specially created for an abandoned space at the heart of the City centre .

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