2016
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Sonia Friedman Productions
Dir: John Tiffany
Venue: The Palace Theatre, West End London
Sound Design: Gareth Fry
Associate Sound Design: Pete Malkin
Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a new play by Jack Thorne. It is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage.
It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children.
While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is one play presented in two Parts, which are intended to be seen in order on the same day (matinee and evening) or on two consecutive evenings.
Creative Team
Director: John Tiffany
Movement Director: Steven Hoggett
Sound Design: Gareth Fry
Associate Sound Design: Pete Malkin
Composer & Arranger: Imogen Heap
Music Supervisor: Martin Lowe
Stage Designer: Christine Jones
Lighting Designer: Neil Austin
Video Designers: Finn Ross and Ash Woodward
Associate Director: Des Kennedy
The Encounter
Photo Robbie Jack
The Encounter
Complicité
Dir: Simon McBurney
Venue: Barbican Theatre, London
John Golden Theatre, New York, Broadway
Sound Design with Gareth Fry
It’s been almost 4 years since I began working with Gareth and the team on the project and through workshops and opening the show as part of the Edinburgh international festival last year, we’re finally opening to a sold out run at the Barbican Theatre. It’s been a fantastic experience so far and I hope the its as interesting for an audience as it was for us to research and realize. We’ve also worked with two amazing operators, Ella Wahlström and Helen Skiera who are able to react to Simon and the show every night as it evolves and keeps evolving, keeping the show in good shape.
For 2016 tour dates head over to the Complicité website:
Creative Team
Director/Performer: Simon Mcburney
Co-Director: Kirsty Housley
Sound by: Gareth Fry with Pete Malkin
Stage Designer: Michael Levine
Lighting Designer: Paul Anderson
Video Designer: Will Duke
Assistant Director: Jemima James
Official London Theatre bit.ly/1Wvvycr "With just his voice, a few props and Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin’s stunning sound design, he creates a myriad of characters that are so alive you feel you could stretch out your fingers to touch them."
Plays to see ★★★★★ http://bit.ly/1RbQWCb "Shut your eyes and get the full treat of Gareth Fry’s and Pete Malkin’s ingenuity in sound design; get immersed in the cacophony of the rainforest, McIntyre’s inner thoughts or the innocent interruptions of McBurney’s six-year-old daughter to her dad’s creative process"
NYTimes nyti.ms/1QmhGB6 You simply sit down, don the headset that’s attached to your seat, and let Mr. McBurney and his extraordinary sound designers — Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin — play with your ears.
The Guardian ★★★★ http://bit.ly/1SxJKn9 "Shut your eyes at any point and you feel, thanks to McBurney’s expressive range and the ingenuity of the sound design by Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin, that you are in the Amazonian jungle."
The Tempest
Donmar Warehouse
Dir: Phyllida Lloyd
Venue: Kings Cross Theatre
Sound Design
This has been an incredibly open process of creating a unique version of The Tempest with Phyllida Lloyd and the cast of The Donmar's Shakespeare Trilogy within the setting of a women's prison.
In 2012, Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female production of Julius Caesar placed the play in a women’s prison. It stunned audiences on both sides of the Atlantic and challenged the idea of ‘who owns Shakespeare?’ In 2014, Phyllida reunited with actor Harriet Walter for Henry IV, the second instalment in what was then announced as a trilogy of works from these major artists.
This autumn the project will conclude with The Tempest forming the final part of THE SHAKESPEARE TRILOGY, as we break free from the Donmar Warehouse to perform in a new 420-seat in-the-round temporary theatre at King’s Cross, immediately adjacent to King’s Cross station and directly accessible from King’s Boulevard.
The Tempest, Henry IV and Julius Caesar will play a 13-week repertory season, from 23 September - 17 December 2016. On special Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy days, all three plays will be performed back to back (dates to be announced).
Creative Team
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Sound Design: Pete Malkin
Music: Joan Armatrading
Set Designer: Chloe Lamford
Lighting Designer: James Farncombe
Movement Director: Ann Yee
Video Designer: Duncan Mclean
Assistant Director: Ola Ince
Home Chat
Photo by: Robert Workman
Zoë Waites
Home Chat
Elmtree Productions
Dir: Martin Parr
Venue: Finborough Theatre
Sound Design: Pete Malkin
A unique rediscovery in its first UK production since its premiere in 1927.
Janet Ebony and her best friend Peter Chelsworth are innocently sharing a sleeping compartment when their train to Paris is involved in a disastrous railway accident. Outrage and scandal ensue as Janet's husband Paul and her fearsome mother-in-law accuse Janet and Peter of adultery. Aghast at their families’ accusations, Janet and Peter decide to take revenge by inventing an adulterous affair...
Written with Noël Coward's trademark wit and insight, Home Chat is a distinctly modern comedy about female sexuality and fidelity, in a society rigidly governed by decorum and reputation.
Creative Team
Director: Martin Parr
Sound Design: Pete Malkin
Music: Cathy Jayes
Set Designer: Rebecca Brower
Lighting Designer: Chris Nairne
Costume Designer: Charlotte Espiner
Beware of Pity
Photo by Gianmarco Bresadola, 2015
Beware of Pity
Complicité
Dir: Simon McBurney
Venue: Berlin, Schaubühne
Sound Design
Autumn/Winter 2015 I Sound Designed a Complicité/Schaubühne co-production, with a wonderful creative team and set of actors, of an adaptation of Stefan Zwieg’s Novel ‘Beware of Pity’. The show is now performing in Rep at the Schaubühne Theatre in Berlin and will occasionally be played with English Subtitles but is performed in German language.
For dates and Tickets head to the Schaubüne website
Creative Team
Director/Performer: Simon Mcburney
Associate Director: James Yeatman
Sound Design: Pete Malkin
Associate Sound: Ben Grant
Stage Designer: Anna Fleischle
Lighting Designer: Paul Anderson
Video Designer: Will Duke
Andrea Chenier
Andrea Chenier, Photo by Robert Workman
Opera North
Dir: Annabel Arden
Venue: Leeds Grand Theatre, Theatre Royal Newcastle, Theatre Royal Nottingham, The Lowry Salford Quays.
Sound Design
To start 2016, I worked with Annabel Arden on some short soundscapes for Opera North's production of the Andrea Chenier.
Sound Design for Opera is farily rare and can be a very delicate form to work in. For Chenier we were trying to preserve the feel of a piece, and find a way that Soundscapes could come in and out without interupting the flow of a piece and yet tell a different part of the story. We recorded English translations of Chenier's Poetry with Rob Hayward (one of the show's actors) and used it as the basis for the soundscape layers, then added to these as it became clear what stories we needed these soundscapes to tell.
Creative Team
Conducter: Oliver von Dohnányi
Director: Annabel Arden
Sound Design: Pete Malkin
Set and Costume Designer: Joanna Parker
Lighting Designer: Peter Mumford
Video Designer: Dick Straker
Movement: Tim Claydon