Further Shore
The late poet Seamus Heaney was a close friend for twenty-five years and a great inspiration.
Neither Either
Choreographer Liz Roche’s premise for the piece was this Seamus Heaney quote.
Four Quartets
Belfast dance company Maiden Voyage chose TS Eliot’s set of poems ‘Four Quartets’ as the inspiration for this work. Four choreographers and four dancers worked on the production. My first dance score….
A Particle of Dread
Field Day Theatre Company was founded by Stephen Rea and Brian Friel in 1980 and immediately established itself as the leading independent theatre voice in Ireland.
Women on the Verge of HRT (1996)
Marie Jones’ hit comedy ran very successfully in the West End during the mid-90s and is still favoured by many amateur drama societies.
Farewell
For Clare Dwyer Hogg’s play my aim was to encapsulate the play’s compliacted, resonant and sore moods in a few short bars. Barry Douglas did me the honour of recording the music.
Northern Star
Stewart Parker’s timeless play ran in Rosemary Street Presbyterian Church, Belfast, for a three-week run. A beautiful venue, I scored this for harp, sax and violin.
St Oscar
Terry Eagleton’s play about Oscar Wilde was my first production for Field Day Theatre Company, and it brought me into contact for the first time with the writer and director, Trevor Griffiths, a man whose craft of language has influenced me greatly.
The Conquest of Happiness
Based on the writings of Bertrand Russell, this was an intercollaboration between theatre companies in Belfast, Sarajevo and Ljubljana.
Belfast By Moonlight
Carlo Gebler’s play about Belfast, told through the eyes of five women from different eras over the city’s 400 year history was written entirely in verse.
