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 

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