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SOUND DESIGN & MUSIC

DIVADLO DISK THEATRE, Prague, Czech Republic
TEATR 77, Lodz, Poland
TEATR MODJESKA, Legnica, Poland
TEATR LALEK, Wroclaw, Poland
NATIONAL THEATRE OF ROMANIA, Sibiu, Romania
NATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL, Bucharest, Romania

Robert Cohen
Transversal Theatre Company

Michael Hooker

(from the Playbill for BLUE SHADE)

"Inspired by Georg Büchner’s famous 19th-century play Woyceck, and combining typically distinct theatrical styles, from dark comedy to abstract expressionism to musical surrealism, Blue Shade is about a young mafioso from Brooklyn, Joey Mazzoni, who, as a distraction from trying to deal with his too-hot-to-handle wife and the demands of “the business,” overindulges in today’s freaky fast-track self-help ethos on which daytime talk shows and the pharmaceutical industry thrive. In Blue Shade civilization risks absolute explanation through the all-too sobering ingestion of a breakthrough drug that inspires a logic necessary to create order out of chaos in a warped economy where the means supersede the ends. Whereas making sense is privileged in this lusty, double-edged world on-the-loose, Joey’s enlightenment may not be just what the doctor ordered."

I served as both sound designer and composer for the European tour of BLUE SHADE.

SOUND EXAMPLES
In the first two cues sound carries the dramatic narrative.
1. The car crash triggers a series of events used to fill in detail of the sordid lives of the Mazzoni family. There is a perspective shift from street to inside the car at the moment before the crash.
2. Joey finds the answer to his problems by taking his own life. He walks into the ocean and drowns - and the sound point-of-view tracks with him.

MUSIC EXAMPLE
3. The Suzy Wright Show is a cheap thrills talk show - loosely resembling Sally Jesse Raphael.

MUSIC EXAMPLE (VIDEO)
Morris sings about his experience on the drug on the Suzy Wright Show.

SOUND EXAMPLES

MUSIC EXAMPLE

"I Can Do No Wrong"
Live at Teatr Lalek
Wroclaw, Poland

IMAGES
Photo credits: Mike Hooker

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