nihilistic optimism on trampolines
A wildly weird reimagining of the origin of Frankenstein, featuring a theatrically gruesome battle on trampolines to a soundtrack of existential dread and an entire swimming pool worth of sweat.
It’s an unbearably boring afternoon at Trampoline World. Thunder crashes overhead, some kid has thrown up in the bathroom, AND the roof is leaking... again.
Boredom quickly descended into cutthroat competition, and existential dread explodes into colourfully grotesque live rock music. There’s a bloody fight in a foam pit, and even gut-wrenching, stomach-churning, heart-shattering poetry can’t save love.
I was the co-composer and co-sound designer for the show with Sofia Jorgovic.
By Theatreworks
Writer/Director: Kasey Barratt
Co-Choreographer: Elyssa Barratt
Set/Costume: Josh Mcneill
Lighting Design: Tom Vulcan
Sound Design/Composition: Sofia Jorgovic & John Sharp
Stage Manager & Sound Operator: Azriel Halge
Dramaturg: Rosa Ablett-Johnstone & Belle Hansen
Co-Producer: Anita Mei La Terra
Band
Guitar: Jackson Cross
Bass: Molly Ferguson-Cumming
Drums: Nicholas Costa
Cast
Mary: Gabrielle Ward
Percy: Bek Schilling
Byron: Eleanor Golding
Claire: Sophie Graham Jones
John: Zoe Wakelin
Creature: Jett Chudleigh
Swing: Morgan Murphy-Dale