the double

Theatre Royal Bath, Ustinov Studio

director: Laurence Boswell

composition & sound design: Jon Nicholls

 
...the meticulous timing of direction and musical composition is extraordinary… 
— WhatsOnStage

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)