Ben Smith
Theatre Sound
2017
How to make me Happy! | Sound Designer
How to make me Happy! | Old Vic Workrooms
December 2017
Director: Jack Clearwater
Barnum | Sound #2
Barnum | Menier Chocolate Factory
November 2017 - March 2018
Director: Gordon Greenberg
Sound Designer: Greg Clarke
Photos: Tristram Kenton
Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty | Sound Designer
Tomorrow I’ll be Twenty | West Yorkshire Tour
February/March 2017
Director: Catherine Alexander
Designer: Bethany Wells | Lighting Designer: Johanne Jensen
Based on Alain Mabanckou’s novel, this is ten-year-old Michel’s exuberant eye witness account of growing up in 1970s Pointe Noire, Congo. This captivating comic story explores rampant capitalism dressed up as Marxist struggle.
A video trailer for the tour can be viewed below, featuring the music that I created for the production.
Frogman | Sound Assistant
Frogman (Curious Directive) | Edinburgh Fringe & UK Tour
August - November 2017
Director: Jack Lowe
Sound Designer: Pete Malkin | Associate Sound Designer: Dan Balfour
The Great Barrier Reef, 1995.
Meera is eleven. It’s her first sleepover. Strawberry Dunkaroos, Sega Mega Drive and coral fragment analysis descends into torch-lit storytelling from sleeping bags.
Lights off. In the corner, Meera’s aquarium is beginning to glow.
Outside over the reef, the Frogman hovers, looking for traces of a missing child.
As police search lights refract through the ocean, the annual coral bloom is due, creating an underwater snowstorm. Time is running out.
A coming-of-age, supernatural thriller, this is a ground-breaking theatre experience, experienced in VR headsets and live theatre from double Fringe First-winners, curious directive.