One of the most acclaimed theatre events in recent years, MUSIK will come to cinemas across the UK for a very special big-screen release, bringing its raw electricity to the cinema for the first time. The film offers a rare chance to experience an unforgettable live solo performance in full, with immersive sound, striking close-ups and the comfort of your local cinema, placing audiences front and centre.
The screening features a live recording from MUSIK’s 2025 run at the stunning Wilton’s Music Hall in London, alongside further scenes filmed especially for a cinema audience. At the heart of MUSIK is a towering one-woman performance by Frances Barber, returning to the iconic character Billie Trix, first created in the 2001 West End musical Closer to Heaven.
Billie Trix is a radical, existentialist and preposterous icon in this bold and hilarious one-woman odyssey through the 20th and 21st centuries.
From post-war Berlin to the New York art scene, from folk duos to disco comebacks, Billie Trix has done it all — often naked, usually high, and always on her own terms. Drawing on her warped memories, lost loves, and chaotic career, Billie delivers a savage, surreal monologue that collides memoir, stand-up, and cabaret.
Blending an outrageous and hilarious monologue written by acclaimed playwright Jonathan Harvey with original songs by Pet Shop Boys, MUSIK is a genre-defying exploration of fame, failure, and fierce individuality — wrapped in sequins and spiked with satire.
At once riotous and poignant, this cult show returns as a filmed stage event that cements Billie Trix’s place in the pantheon of outsider icons. As she says herself: “I am music. Ich bin Musik. Without me, there is nothing.”
On MUSIK coming to UK cinemas, Frances Barber says: ‘I’m so excited that cinema audiences can now experience MUSIK. Performing as Billie Trix has always been a live, dangerous exchange, and the big screen brings audiences closer than ever to that relationship. Sharing Billie with cinema audiences across the UK feels like giving the show a bold new lease of life!’
Following sold-out stage performances and overwhelming critical acclaim since its premiere at the Edinburgh Festival in 2019, MUSIK has been hailed as a cult classic in the making, with critics praising Barber’s fearless performance and the show’s outrageous wit and musical power.
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