If you’ve followed my blog or read any of
my theatre reviews throughout this year, you might have seen a numbered song at
the bottom of the page. Collected together, they form ‘The Playlist,’ the idea being
to find a piece of music that encapsulates either the production or my response
to it (often both). So, as with last
year’s round-up of the theatre-year, here is The Playlist for 2014.
1. The
Lion King: Circle of Life,
Elton Jon & Tim Rice *
2. On
the Shore of the Wide World: Song
for Bob, Nick
Cave
3. Travelling
North: Going North, Missy
Higgins
4. Black
Diggers: The Last Post, Traditional *
5. Othello:
The Remix: Rap Othello, The Reduced Shakespeare
Company
6. The
Shadow King: Improvisation, from The Reef, Mark
Atkins / Richard Tognetti / Julian Thomson
7. Oedipus
Schmoedipus: Love The Way You Lie,
Rihanna *
8. Once
in Royal David’s City: Once In
Royal David’s City, Cambridge Trinity College Choir*
9. The
Long Way Home: Synchrotone,
Hans Zimmer
10. Noises
Off: Spanish Flea, Herb Alpert
& The Tijuana
Brass *
11. Jump
for Jordan: Jump (For My Love),
Girls Aloud
12. Fugitive: Rescue,
Andy Price
13. The
Seagull: Cello Sonata in C, Op. 65: III. Elegia, Benjamin Britten
14. The
Winter’s Tale: Moonshadow, Cat Stevens
15. Hilt:
Girls, Death in Vegas
16. All’s
Well That Ends Well: Hunter,
Björk *
17. The
Government Inspector: Can Can,
from Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli
18. Twelfth
Night: Gay Pirates, Cosmo
Jarvis
19. Music:
This Charming Man, The Smiths *
20. Perplex:
I Want To Break Free, Queen *
21. Strictly
Ballroom: Love Is In The Air
(Fran Mix), John Paul Young *
22. Construction
of the Human Heart: Lost Fur,
Carter Burwell
23. Antigone: 3200
Years Ago, James Horner
24. William
Shakespeare’s Reservoir Dogs:
Battle Without Honour or Humanity, Tomoyasu Hotei
25. Eight
Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography: Somebody
to Love, Queen
26. Cain
and Abel: Kiss With A Fist, Florence
27. Mojo:
I Know What I Am, Band of Skulls
28. Brothers
Wreck: On the Boat, Mick Harvey
29. The
Violent Outburst That Drew Me To You: Heartbreak Hill, Michael Yezerski
30. Patyegarang:
Sarah
Sees Nullah, David Hirschfelder
31. Hedda
Gabler: Heads Will Roll, Yeah Yeah
Yeahs
32. Richard
III: A Hard Day’s Night,
Peter Sellers
33. Every
Second: Ballet of the Unhatched
Chicks, Modest Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel)
34. La
Ronde: Lovefool, The
Cardigans
35. Book
of Days: The Wicked Flee, Carter
Burwell
36. Lobby
Hero: Talk to the Fist, Nigel
Godrich
37. Phaedra:
Burning Down The House, Talking Heads
38. The
Effect: Warm In The Winter, Glass
Candy *
39. A
Doll’s House: Wandering
Jane, Dario Marianelli
40. Macbeth:
The Time of Angels, Murray Gold
41. Ugly
Mugs: Tough Call, The
Samphire Band
42. Macbeth:
Red Right Hand, Nick Cave
43. The
Magic Flute: Sandcastles,
Alan Silvestri
44. Tartuffe:
Toccata
and Fugue in D minor [Edit],
Ekseption
45. Joan
Again: Talk To Me, Eric Serra
46. Nora:
She’s Leaving Home, The Beatles
47. The
Bitterness of Pomegranates: Life Drawings,
Mark West and Derek Yau
48. Constellations: Skies,
Alexandre Desplat
49. Wolf
Lullaby: Sound
sculpture I, Paul Healy
50. Oedipus
Rex: Kyrie, from Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Two Mixed
Choirs & Orchestra, Gyorgy Ligeti
51. Black
Rainbow: Griff’s Theme, Kids
At Risk
52. The
Elixir of Love: Shepherd’s hey, Percy Grainger
53. Unholy
Ghosts: Winter, Ophelia of
the Spirits
54. Sugarland: End Credits, from Australian Rules, Mick Harvey
55. Europe: Elephant
Love Medley, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor and Jamie Allen
56. Procne
and Tereus: Search and Destroy, The Stooges *
57. Jennifer
Forever: The Strange Place, Brian Eno
58. Children
of the Sun: Children of the
Revolution, T. Rex
59. The
Glass Menagerie: Dream Violin,
Craig Armstrong
60. The
Witches: Dangerous, Bruno
Coulais
61. Kryptonite:
Shanghai Drive
62. Is
This Thing On?: Cheap Wine,
Cold Chisel *
63. Monkey…
Journey to the West: Hero,
Hans Zimmer & John Powell
64. Calpurnia
Descending: Sunset Boulevard:
Suite, Franz Waxman
65. Once:
Falling Slowly, Glen Hansard &
Markéta Irglová *
66. Les
Misérables: One Day More,
Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg *
67. Emerald
City: Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Tears for Fears *
68. Henry
V: The Half Killed, Dario
Marianelli
69. Switzerland:
The Murderer Awaits, Daniel Pemberton
70. A
Christmas Carol: Scrooge, from
The Muppets Christmas Carol, Miles Goodman
71. Cinderella:
Spring
Rain, The Go-Betweens *
72. Platonov:
She is of the heavens,
Dario Marianelli
73. Cyrano
de Bergerac: Cyrano,
Jean-Claude Petit
74. The
Legend of King O’Malley: Get
Ready For Love, Nick
Cave
75. God
of Carnage: End Titles, from Carnage,
Alexandre Desplat *
76. Frankenstein: Industrial
Revolution, Underworld *
77. Rupert:
Right Here Right Now, Fatboy Slim
78. Sweeney
Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim *
79. Age
of Entitlement: Opening Titles,
from Oliver Twist, Martin Phipps
80. Page 8:
Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen,
Davey Page *
81.
A
Streetcar Named Desire: Peace in Mississippi, Earth *
* INDICATES TRACKS THAT WERE FEATURED IN THE PRODUCTION.
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