Gareth Fry
Sound Design for Theatre
SCENE 1 - AIRBAG
The final thump of a rolled car as its wheels come down for the last time. A silence filled with tiny sounds. The slither and tinkle of the final pieces of glass as they fall from the windscreen into the interior. The ticking contractions of cooling metal that seconds ago was a high performance engine. Indecipherable shouts in the far background. The creaking of leather. Rain battering off metal. Underpinning everything the arrhythmic whoosh of cars passing on the opposite carriageway, and a FEMALE VOICE - a computer-stilted version of SARAH.
OK Computer
BBC Radio 4, Friday Play
Transmitted: 19th October 2007 and 11 April 2009
Directed by Lu Kemp
Written by Joel Horwood, Chris Perkins, Al Smith and Chris Thorpe
Performed by: Tom Brooke, Liz White, Federay Holmes, Pieter Lawman, Chris Thorpe
Early the next morning. PAUL is in the bath. In the bathroom the radio plays current affairs interspersed with music. He takes a deep breath and slides his head completely under the water. The radio muffles. The ticking, clanking underwater echoes of metal pipes and dripping taps. He lies like this fo a few seconds. The blood swooshes through his veins. His heartbeat in the background.
SARAH: (Clear, as if she was lying next to him) Today.
PAUL shoots up out of the water, gasping. Water sloshes onto the bathroom tiles. The radio sharpens again. A half-heard article on airline safety regulations.
Music featured in the show
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Path Fades Into Forest - Susumu Yokota
Theme from “To Kill a Dead Man” - Portishead
Contact Me
Gareth Fry, mobile phone: +44 7973 352669, email: garethfry@hotmail.com
I am represented by Clare Fox: http://www.clarefox.co.uk/
(c) Gareth Fry 2009
