MixTape opened at Crow’s Theatre last night.  It’s a one woman show conceived, written and performed by Zorana Sadiq.  It’s a complex show and I describe it with some trepidation a i think the whole is considerably greater than the sum of the parts into which I must decompose it.  Structurally it’s a mixture of story telling, stand up comedy, recital and recorded music facilitated by Sadiq’s training as a classical singer; Master of Music as she half proudly, half tongue in cheek informs us at one point.  The music is eclectic; ranging from Neil Diamond and Michael Jackson to Messiaen and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.  It all points to life stages and life events and to a growing realisation that music, and indeed sound, can be much more than we imagine in our first explorations of it.  Some of the music is recorded but much is performed, expertly, by Sadiq.  There are also, of course, references to the infamous “mx tape” and the limitations of cassette tape technology.

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