BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO
by Joel Horwood
8 February 2019 – 30 March 2019
★★★★
‘Tom Brooke is brilliant in Tom Scutt’s inspired production’
Observer
★★★★
‘Berberian Sound Studio is both a chiller about workplace crack-up and a wry critique of the genre’
Sunday Times
★★★★
‘A remarkable achievement – richly textured… and occasionally mind expanding’
Evening Standard
Based on the original motion picture screenplay by Peter Strickland
Conceived for the stage by Joel Horwood and Tom Scutt
Written by Joel Horwood
Italy, 1976. Gilderoy is a long way from home.
His work as a sound designer for Dorking-based nature documentaries has not gone unnoticed. He has swapped the foley table of his garden shed for the glamour of the Berberian Sound Studio. Here, at the height of giallo horror, cabbages become corpses, your own voice can be over-dubbed and silence speaks louder than screams.
Peter Strickland’s acclaimed subliminal horror film is adapted for the stage by Joel Horwood and Director Tom Scutt in this darkly comedic, sonic experience
Rehearsal and production photography by Marc Brenner
Production Photos
CAST
In order of appearance
Gilderoy TOM BROOKE
Elena EUGENIA CARUSO
Massimo TOM ESPINER
Massimo HEMI YEROHAM
Francesco ENZO CILENTI
Lorenzo SIDNEY KEAN
Sylvia LARA ROSSI
Carla BEATRICE SCIROCCHI
Lixenberg LORÉ LIXENBERG
Santini LUKE PASQUALINO
VOICES
Sara EUGENIA CARUSO
Giovanni STEFANO BRASCHI
Mum MARION BAILEY
CREATIVE TEAM
Director TOM SCUTT
Design ANNA YATES AND TOM SCUTT
Lighting Designer LEE CURRAN
Composition and Sound Design BEN AND MAX RINGHAM
Movement Director SASHA MILAVIC DAVIES
Foley Designer TOM ESPINER
Projection MOGZI
Casting Director AMY BALL CDG