I am one of the three musicians who are writing and performing the live music.
Lizzie’s writing always reverberates with both the ghosts and the real at the same time and I think that especially weaves through this play. We’ve worked together for a long time now and it’s always a joy.
When I was 11, standing on the Leazes Terrace with two minutes to go in the last game of the season when the ball dropped to David Kelly on the edge of the box and he half-volleyed it into the roof of the net keeping Newcastle from dropping into what was then the third division. Cue utter mayhem.
I’d like to sail up the Bosphorus with Istanbul raging on either side. Or to pull up next to Cannery Row in Monterey and search for the spirits of Mack and the boys.
I love it in rehearsals with those rare spine-tingley moments when the music lifts the dialogue up to a different place from before and you know you’ve got it just right. So lots of those if we’re lucky. And the first pint after each show.
‘Singapore’ by Tom Waits – though it was probably him who caused the storm in the first place.