the double
Theatre Royal Bath, Ustinov Studio
director: Laurence Boswell
composition & sound design: Jon Nicholls
Dostoyevsky’s classic story of a man’s gradual descent into hell, haunted by his own doppelganger, had a hugely acclaimed run at Bath Theatre Royal in autumn 2012.
Jon’s score ranged from echoes of Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Stravinsky to brooding soundscapes and quirkily eccentric sound design.
★★★★ ‘…combines the febrile precision of a farce with the hallucinogenic atmosphere of a nightmare…its signature note is head-turning brilliance’ (The Telegraph)
★★★★ …’creepily compelling…gleefully grotesque….a playful sinister danse macabre. Social inequality, the tyranny of meaningless work, the torment of unrequited love, humanity’s capacity for cruelty – all loom menacingly over one unravelling man. It could happen to any of us. Horrifying – and horribly entertaining’ (The Times)