The audio version of Pain and I is a 30-minute headphone experience, written and performed by Sarah Hopfinger with sound and music design by Alicia Jane Turner. It is a caring yet direct, gentle yet bold, experience, which includes poetic text framed as a love letter to Hopfinger’s pain along with creative movement descriptions.

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Listen to full-length Audio here.

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Listen to Audio extracts here.

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This piece can be accessed in a venue or from wherever is most suited to an audience member – indoors, outdoors, at home, in bed, on a walk, in a park, at work, alone, with others.

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Originally commissioned and presented at Take Me Somewhere for their 2021 festival, the Audio has been presented with The Roundhouse, Dundee Rep and Summerhall.

 

★ ★ ★ ★ The Guardian​

Poetic audio piece that reflects on the performer’s chronic pain not as enemy… but as an old friend.

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Hit The North Blog

Incredible... Hopfinger's words...have weight and nuance... raw, honest.

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Exeunt Magazine

Demonstrates the immense value of learning to be with that which you can’t leave – pain, grief, regrets.

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