"A powerful, haunting contemporary score which is bound to excite and captivate... a composer to watch in the near future"
Fringe Review on Constance & Sinestra
"Fully realised, beautifully arranged slices of miniaturist storytelling/musical theatre, with the delicacy and precision of chamber music and a strong sense of the macabre"
Bearded Magazine on The Clockwork Quartet
"Strange, disturbing, weird, yet rather compelling"
AltSounds on The Clockwork Quartet
"Tarnished, bittersweet music"
The Guardian on The Clockwork Quartet
"A pleasure to watch, and musical numbers blend marvellously as they vary between teary laments and comedic character pieces"
Broadway Baby on Constance & Sinestra
"The jewels are the strong songs. Their vision, depth and thoughtful arrangement put to shame the hackneyed standards of the contemporary musical scene"
The Stage on Constance & Sinestra
"Patrick Gleeson's score is fun, emotive and arresting"
The Scotsman on Constance & Sinestra
"Eerie, exotic-sounding"
The Evening Standard on The Clockwork Quartet
"The music is excellent, with light, fairground tunes warping and giving way to military beats."
Views From The Gods on Happy Birthday Wanda June
"The script is tight and the songs are better, sometimes haunting and at other times jaunty... exquisitely creepy"
Three Weeks on Constance & Sinestra
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Constance & Sinestra and the Cabinet of Screams is a musical I co-created with writer/director/producer/genius Alexandra Spencer-Jones.
It appeared in its first incarnation at the Edinburgh Festival 2011 as part of Action To The Word's 3-show rep. After garnering
several enthusiastic reviews and winning Alex the MTM:UK Emerging Artist award the show transferred to the New Wimbledon Studio,
and then had a brief outing in 2012 in Alaska. It is currently in development.
A dark story of bonbons, taxidermy, and spooky little girls, the piece draws heavily on gothic and fairytale influences, and
is unsuitable for those adults and children who scare easily...
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click here to visit the show's page on actiontotheword.com
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Action To The Word is a UK theatre company that primarily produces Shakespeare. I have composed,
arranged, recorded and performed music for their shows since 2005, including:
A Clockwork Orange (International Tour, 2009 - 2013),
I'd Kill For You (Etcetera Theatre, 2013),
Romeo & Juliet (Camden People's Theatre, 2012),
Titus Andronicus (The Space, 2010 / C Venues 2011),
Agamemnon (Camden People's Theatre, 2010) and
The Merchant of Venice (Camden People's Theatre, 2010) .
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In late 2009 I started exploring ways of adapting H.G. Wells's short
story A Story of the Stone Age as a musical drama.
I have written a series of preparatory sketches, some of which are below,
with a view to creating an extended suite of music to accompany a physical
theatre/dance performance of the story. There are no current plans to develop this,
but it remains on my list of projects to do when I get a free moment...
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James Dingle asked me to score his film and TV showreel. Included below are both the first and second versions of
the music I wrote for him. It highlights one of the great things about writing music for a creative endeavour, namely how
much things can change over the course of the project.
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click here to visit dinglefilm.co.uk
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The Electric Animal Circus is a live show I thought up. It's set in the future and features performing robots and strange
made-up instruments. The great thing about doing a project like this is that there's no one to stop you writing all the
music for it yourself.
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click here to visit electricanimalcircus.com
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Eye Spy Arts is a London-based theatre company that specialises in puppetry and creative learning.
I have worked as composer and sound designer for two Eye Spy Arts shows - Jew(ish),
an exploration of the imagery and culture of Judaism through dance and puppetry; and
Zoo Hullabaloo, a children's puppet theatre show.
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It started off as a piece of theatre. Then it became a band. Then it became an online, multimedia novel.
Now I'm not sure what The Clockwork Quartet is, but along the way I wrote a series of narrative songs for it, some of which
were recorded and put online, and which gained a small but loyal fan following.
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Sex on the Beach is a short film from One Big Mop productions, filmed in 2011 and due for completion in
early 2012. I was given the opportunity to write the score for it. Not all of the material below made it into
the final edit, but these are the cues I most enjoyed writing.
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A rare revival of Kurt Vonnegut's only published play, Happy Birthday Wanda June
was put on by Act Up at the Old Red Lion in the autumn of 2012. I was brought onboard as composer and sound designer,
tasked with writing entr'acte and underscore music that would complement the chaotic, discordant dark comedy of the script.
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