February 2017: Songs for a New World
Jason Robert Brown’s song cycle Songs for a New World was the first piece of musical theatre I worked on. It was staged in one of Durham University’s beautiful and atmospheric chapels. I worked hard with the four actors to establish cohesive storylines across the production. Whilst the characters move around in both time and location (from the deck of Columbus’s sailing ship to the balcony of a New York skyscraper), they remain ostensibly the same people.
Director: Jennifer Lane Baker
Musical director: Issie Osborne
Choreographer: Natasha Bradley
Lighting and sound designer: Emily Hicks
Photographs: James Yallop
“a positively charming, beautiful and nuanced piece of theatre”
— The Bubble
“A lesson on how to perform musical theatre”
— First Night
“a brave and contemporary piece”
— Palatinate
