Hansjörg Schertenleib

Back then, a love of music bound them together. Today, the only thing that still keeps them together is their memories. Twenty-five years after the break up of Radio Kashmir, a youth club’s cult DJ team, they keep the promise made long ago to meet up again when they are 40. The six that meet up have changed, and yet everything is the same. The little friendships and enmities from back then quickly bubble to the surface. What began as a homage to times gone by ends in a debacle. Little by little, the ornate façade crumbles. Radio Kashmir is a play about the inexorable decay of youthful ideals, about lies, confessions and… music. Like a memorial to solidarity and the light-heartedness of a bygone era, the songs from the Radio Kashmir hit list are played over and over again. “From A for Alice Cooper to M for John Mayal – and from T for Tangerine Dreams to Z for Zappa.”
But the music can’t hide the obvious. They have all failed, some more so, some less. Indeed, the evening is fateful for the host, Bruno. Painstakingly careful to present a perfect, luxurious, carefree life to the others, in the end he must accept that his world of make-believe does not impress. The realisation of having failed in front of his friends leaves him no choice.
Radio Kashmir shows the tragi-comedy of life. Appearance and reality take on another meaning in the prime of life. And the ever-revolving joint no longer offers a remedy…