Trojan Women 2005
Trojan_women_chorus: Kate Dickie as Andromache Itxaso Moreno as Cassandra
I was comissioned by Theatre Cryptic to generate real-time visuals and sound/music for a version of Brendan Keneally's adaptation of Euripides' Trojan Women in 2005. The work was premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2005 and toured Scotland between September and November 2005.
Myra McFadyen as Hecuba
Kate Dickie as Andromache
Itxaso Moreno as Cassandra
Candice Edmunds as Helen
Keith Macpherson as Talthybius and Menelaus
Direction by Cathie Boyd
Design by Julia Bardsley
Lighting by Giuseppe di lorio
Sound design, composition and real time visuals by Martin Parker
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Trojan Women introduction
This is the audio introduction to Trojan Women. There is an ambient soundscape which errupts into a transcription of a speech by Lt. Tim Collins on the eve of the Iraq War. The first scene is also entirely sonic and is represented by the sound of the gods, Poseidon and Pallas Athena. The end of the track is an example of sounds that sit beneath the text as it is acted. [img_assist|nid=154|title=|desc=Kate Dickie as Andromache Itxaso Moreno as Cassandra|link=none|align=left|width=640|height=95]Trojan Women - Helen's Theme
Helen's theme. This sound was designed to introduce Helen. It represents her function as a twisted but beautiful figure. In the play she is portrayed as a wicked bitch and someone who carries mythically sexual powers over men, useing them not only to her advantage but to deliberately disenfranchise, abuse and weaken other women.Trojan Women - Nothingness
This is the music used to describe nothingness and a feeling of dispair, lament and justifiable self pity. These feelings are expressed by Hecuba as she learns of the Greek's intentions towards Andromache's son.Trojan Women Video
Trojan Women promo video, created by Theatre Cryptic (http://www.cryptic.org), sound Martin Parker
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