GREAT EXPECTATIONS
2015
DUNDEE REP | HORSECROSS ARTS
by Jo Clifford
DIRECTOR
Jemima Levick
SOUNDTRACK INFO
Live vocal and piano score. Songs included my arrangements of Song To The Siren by Tim Buckley, The Wind That Shakes The Barley by Dead Can Dance and a reimagining of the 1930's classic Dream A Little Dream. I was also cast in an acting role as Pip’s butler.
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Great Expectations performed at Dundee Rep and Perth Concert Hall throughout June 2014.
RELATED WORKS
Soundtracks for other Dundee Rep productions include:
The Maids (2017)
All My Sons (2019)
Soundtracks for other Jo Clifford plays include:
The Tree Of Knowledge (2011)
One of the central piano pieces from my Great Expectations soundtrack, Miss Havisham Remembers will be released as sheet music and a studio recording in Spring 2022.
soundtrack coming soon …
“The emotional atmosphere is also greatly enhanced by a haunting live soundtrack, composed and performed by David Paul Jones, that tracks the changes in mood from major to minor and incorporates songs ranging from the blacksmiths’ ditty Hammer Boys Round Old Clem to a poignant rendition of the Mama Cass classic Dream a Little Dream of Me”
THE TIMES
“Both David Paul Jones’s passionate, lyrical live piano score and Emily Jane Boyle’s fine choreography, make an outstanding contribution to the story, as the score sometimes swoops from the 19th into the 20th century with songs of love and longing that bring Pip’s obsession with Estella frighteningly close to us”
THE SCOTSMAN
“pulsed by a powerful piano score played live by David Paul Jones, who also weaves exquisitely moody arrangements of several contemporary songs into the mix”
THE HERALD
CREDITS
Written by Jo Clifford from the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Director: Jemima Levick
Composer & Sound Designer: David Paul Jones
Choreographer: Emily-Jane Boyle
Lighting Designer: Mike Robertson
Set & Costume Designer: Becky Minto
Cast:
Thomas Cotran | Millie Turner | Annie Louise Ross | David Delve | John Macauley | Antony Strachan |
Emily Winter | Sally Reid | David Paul Jones
Images © Tommy Ga-Ken Wan