B7 Media has released Triffids! – an immersive audio production inspired by John Wyndham's "The Day of the Triffids"

Platform 4's Triffids! takes the audience deep into John Wyndham's classic cold war novel: The Day of the Triffids featuring a live soundtrack with instruments including Moog, Double Bass, Theremin, Hammered Dulcimer and... a Cactus! This exciting audio drama is being exclusively released by B7 Media to coincide with the UK tour as a stage show in March 2022. The tour will visit Norwich, Birmingham, Oxford, Chichester, London, Winchester, Coventry, Salisbury, Aldershot, Exeter, Colchester, New Milton, Cambridge and Poole.

Indie arts company Platform 4, the creators of Triffids!, creates playful and unexpected worlds in which performers and participants can explore their creativity and the things that matter to them. The work is highly visual and musical; it connects people and puts human relationships at the heart of the event. In adapting the original Wyndham novel, Platform 4 has brought the novel into the 21st century, cutting out many of the outdated comments the book indulged in, interweaving beautiful elegiac violin solos and melancholic wistful melodies inspired by a lost world to wacky, psychedelic 1990s acid house.

The team behind Triffids! have worked with The National Theatre, Bellowhead, Southbank Centre, Kneehigh, BBC and The Bone Ensemble; together they create a very special magic, as seen in their previous collaboration, the acclaimed Invisible Music.

Platform 4's Artistic Director, Catherine Church said of the distribution deal with B7 Media; "We are delighted to be collaborating with B7 Media for the first time on distributing Triffids! Inspired by the classic cold war novel The Day of the Triffids, none of us knew how weirdly prescient this piece would be. The novel essentially asks the question – what would you do if a deadly germ invaded the world? Would you stay in your immediate community? How would you feel about the many things we take for granted? How would it change your priorities in life?  All of these questions are covered in the novel - finally, finally we get to launch this incredibly exciting project in podcast form! Recording it has been quite a challenge with the amount of sci fi instruments in the piece – from a MOOG to a Theramin to a Dulcimer to a Cactus!"

B7 Media's Production Director, Helen Quigley told Sci-Fi Bulletin; "The Day of The Triffids has seen multiple adaptations and interpretations since its publication in 1951, so when I heard Platform 4's version I was impressed by their genuinely original and truly immersive take on this classic story. It's unique, yet still perfectly conveys the unsettling tone of the novel."

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Tour dates are as follows:

Weds 2 Mar. 8.00pm Norwich Norwich Arts Centre
Fri 4 Mar. 8.00pm Oxford North Wall
Sat 5 Mar. 8.00pm Poole Lighthouse: Poole Centre for the Arts
Mon 7 Mar. 7.45pm Exeter Exeter Phoenix
Tue 8 Mar. 7.30pm Winch Theatre Royal Winchester
Wed 9 Mar. 1.30pm/7.30pm Winch Theatre Royal Winchester
Thu 10 Mar. 7.30pm Chichester The Show Room. Chichester University
Fri 11 Mar. 8.00pm Salisbury Salisbury Arts Centre
Sat 12 Mar. 8.00.pm Cambridge Cambridge Junction
Wed 16 Mar. 7.30pm Birmingham MAC (Birmingham)
Thu 17 Mar. 8.00pm Aldershot West End Centre
Fri 18 Mar. 7.30pm New Milton Forest Arts Centre
Sat 19 Mar. 7.30pm London Arts Depot
Wed 23 Mar. 7.30pm Colchester Colchester Arts Centre