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The Picture of Dorian Gray, as adapted by Glory Kadigan, was a very stylized staging of Oscar Wilde's novel. Thru sound, we developed an identity for the darkness intwined in the portrait. This sound grew and distorted our music as the piece progressed, climaxing when Dorian destroys the portrait.
Here are three Qs from this production. The first Q occurs after Sybil kills herself, and the painting begins to age. The second occurs when Dorian leads Basil to the school room, to show him the cursed portrait, and proceeds to kill him. The third Q is the climax, and Dorian finds no choice but to destroy the portrait, and in doing so, destroys himself. |
The painting Ages |
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The Violet Hour takes place in the small office of a book publisher during the 1930s. At the beginning of the play, a strange machine is delivered. We never see this machine, we only hear it. The machine begins with a simple "ticking" noise, but slowly evolves and grows over the course of the play. It begins spewing pages from books printed in the future, and eventually, during the climax of the play, creates an "event" that turns back time, bringing us back to the start of the play.
The notion we had developed for the machine, was that it's evolutions would take us thru time, evolving from a simple printing press, to something from the "future", all while being it's own not-quite identifiable entity, and continually creating a sense of urgency and pressure. Here are several evolutions of the machine, as well as the "event" |
An example of one evolution of The Machine from "The Violet Hour" |
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Without a Safety Net was about a young woman, Melody, who recently graduated from university, and is reflecting on her life, and where to go from here. For the sound, we tried to create the notion of memory, and chaos, and eventually finding harmony and clarity thru it all. Thru-ought the course of the piece, Melody's memories pile on, creating an increasing cacophony, until she eventually finds clarity. |
A sound Q from "Without a Safety Net" |
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Body Language is a play about a young woman, Mary, who at first seems content and happy, but is at heart deeply troubled. Using sound, we tried to bring the audience into Mary's world, by beginning with a happy, upbeat piece of music, and slowly tearing it apart, distorting it with the voices of the characters of the play, building chaos and urgency until the climax, when Mary finally finds peace, and the voices and chaos subsides. |
A sound Q from "Body Language" |
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Tulpa, or Anne and Me is a piece about a young woman, Star, who is struggling find her identity. While watching an Anne Hathaway DVD, Anne emerges from the television, and together they discover themselves. We used the sound to represent the surreal world that Anne lived in, and called upon it to transition from our world to hers, as well as used it within her world. |
A sound Q from the play "Tulpa or Anne and Me" |
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For Hair, we created a hellish, chaotic sound Q for our Protagonists bad acid trip, recalling various memories as well as being hounded by several characters form the play.
This is a long Q that develops over the course of the Q. Feel free to listen from the beginning, or skip ahead a few minutes to get the gist of it. |
A bad trip Sound cue from the play "Hair" |
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Inhale is a piece about three people; one who needs a new lung, one who needs new eyes, and one mother who waits in the hospital waiting room after her daughter is in a fatal car crash.
The following sound Q introduced the piece, and was called upon, in modified forms, to transition between our three characters. |
Sound cue from the play "Inhale" |