If you've followed
my blog or read any of the theatre reviews throughout this year, you might have
seen – at the bottom of the page – a song, numbered from 1 to 39. They form
what I call ‘The Playlist,’ the idea being to find a piece of music that
encapsulates either the production or my response to it (or sometimes both). Some
selections may differ from those posted in the reviews; if so, it’s only
because of a further reflection upon the production on my part. So here,
altogether for the first time, is The Playlist for 2013.
1. School
Dance: Safety Dance, Men Without Hats *
2. Rust
and Bone: Window, Nick
Cave
3. Peter
Pan: Tonight We Fly, The Divine Comedy
4. The
Secret River: The Landing, Elena Kats-Chernin
5. This
Heaven: Aftermath, Nigel
Godrich
6. Mrs
Warren’s Profession: Reflection, Howard Shore
7. Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof: Cat People (Putting Out The Fire), David Bowie
8. Stories
I Want To Tell You In Person: NY Psycho Freylekhs, The
Klezmatics
9. Girl in Tan Boots: These Boots Were Made for Walking, Little Birdy *
10. OneScientific Mystery, or Why Did The Aborigines Eat Captain Cook?: Why
Did The Aborigines Eat Captain Cook?, VulgarGrad *
11. Forget
Me Not: Let The Rest Go, Lisa Gerrard & Marcello De Francisci
12. Henry 4:
Anarchy in the U.K.
13. The
Bull, the Moon and the Coronet of Stars: Museum Open Late, Alan
Silvestri
14. Angels
in America: God
Music, from Black Angels,
George Crumb
15. Phèdre:
Zanstra, Nick Cave
16. The Maids: The Rehearsal, Alexandre
Desplat
17.
This
Is Where We Live: Daniel, Lior
18.
Rocket
Man: Astral Boy, Killing Heidi
19. Top
Girls: Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves,
Eurythmics
20. Persona:
Muo Sukoshi Jibun no Koto, Kichinto Shitaino, Jonny Greenwood
21.
Beached: Fat, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
22.
A
Midsummer Night’s Dream: Prelude, from Cello
Suite No. 1 (on Tuba),
J.S. Bach *
23. The Merchant of Venice: The Quality of Mercy, Michelle Shocked
24. Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern Are Dead:
Kemp’s Jegg, Tarleton’s Jig
25. Storm
Boy: That Eye, The Sky, My Friend The Chocolate Cake
26. Jerusalem: Jerusalem
27. Miss
Julie: Theme from Miss Julie, THE SWEATS *
28.
Return
to Earth: Birth of a New Intelligence, Daniel Pemberton
29. Small
and Tired: Small Memory, Jon Hopkins
30. Romeo
and Juliet: Fitzpleasure, alt-j *
31. The
Floating World: The Galapagos, Iva Davies, Christopher Gordon & Richard Tognetti
32. Hamlet: “When I
am laid in earth”, from Dido & Aeneas, Henry Purcell *
33. The
Cake Man: The Taking Children Away, Cezary Skubiszewski
34. Vere
(Faith): Higgs Boson Blues, Nick Cave
35. The
Comedy of Errors: Boys Will Be Boys, The Ordinary Boys
36.
Summertime
in the Garden of Eden: Tara Theme – Main Title, Max Steiner
37. Waiting
for Godot: Sounds of Silence, Simon & Garfunkel
38. Richard
II – RSC Live in Cinemas: Bolingbroke, Paul Englishby *
39. Coranderrk: Listen
To The News, Ernie Dingo
* indicates tracks that were featured in the
production.
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