Kurt & Sid is set in April 1994; a man sits alone in an attic extension on the cusp of becoming a Seattle suicide statistic. This man is no number and name to be reported in a local newspaper. He is an icon, albeit a reluctant one. The frontman of Nirvana is about to pull the trigger of the gun in his hand and join the leagues of rock star deaths down the ages. Without invitation, Kurt has the curious company of a man purporting to be the Sex Pistol’s Sid Vicious, Kurt’s hero.

Whether he is a ghost, a figment of Kurt’s imagination, a hallucination, a dream or a punk impersonator remains to be seen as the two musicians trade quips and quotes about the emptiness of fame, a mutual understanding of drug addiction and self-destruction.

Roy Smiles’s witty and beautifully poignant new play Kurt & Sid explores exactly what it means to dice with death when being alive proves to be all too painful and peace seems elusive.

Danny Dyer, who stars in Kurt & Sid with Shaun Evans, is best known for his film roles, which include Human Traffic, Mean Machine and The Football Factory, though on stage he has appeared in Harold Pinter’s Celebration, No Man’s Land and The Homecoming.

For more about Kurt & Sid, read the Big Interview with Danny Dyer and Shaun Evans or the First Night Feature.