ROBERT ORIOL
All Things Audio for Theater
Robert Oriol is a composer and sound designer currently based in Los Angeles, California. In addtion to original music composition and theatrical sound design, he also provides music recording and production services, as well as editing and mixing.Dance of Death
Long rumored to be the basis of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - and serving up a similarly unwitting sacrificial lamb - this battle of the sexes crackles with “a leavening vein of mordant humor”. Tense and taut, brittle and brave, these scenes from a marriage cut to the core—and cast an unflinching light on personal revolutions with astounding force.
By August Strindberg, in a new version by Conor McPherson. Directed by Geoff Elliott & Julia Rodriguez-Elliott. Scenic Design and Costumes by Angela Balogh Calin. Lighting Design by Ken Booth. Sound Design and Original Music by Robert Oriol. Stage Managment by Scott Kriloff. Cast includes Susan Angelo, Eric Curtis Johnson, and Geoff Elliot. Photo by Craig Schwartz Photography.
Music from Dance of Death
Click the PLAY button below to stream the music from this production, or click HERE to go to the BandCamp page for track listings and details.Press Quotes
"Conor McPherson’s free adaptation of Dance sharpens some features of Strindberg’s play and heightens the sense of confinement barely indicated in the original script. With the help of an oppressively rendered scenic design (by Angela Balogh Cailin who also provides the period-perfect costuming), omnipresent bars (lighting designed by Ken Booth) overshadow the proceedings, and more subtantial interlocking bars hovering in the background move and clang as the dance reaches ever-more fevered pitch. Throughout, the internal piano cues are augmented by Robert Oriol’s original compositions and arrangments." - Leigh Kennicott from StageHappenings.com, November 2014A Noise Within
3352 E Foothill Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91107
October 18 - November 23, 2014