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, opening, fittingly, on halloween. It is currently being developed, and will see its third outing in 2012.
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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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: Titus Andronicus (The Space, 2010 / C Venues 2011) , Agamemnon (Camden People's Theatre, 2010) , The Merchant of Venice (Camden People's Theatre, 2010) , A Clockwork Orange (Proud Galleries, 2009 / C Venues, 2011) , Shakespeare Shorts (ADC Cambridge, 2007 / Edinburgh Fringe, 2008) and The Taming of the Shrew (European Tour, 2005 / ADC Cambridge, 2006) .
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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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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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