Django Bates Writes Music For Rarely Performed Shakespeare Satire
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Django Bates has written the music for the Globe theatre production of Shakespeare’s satire Timon of Athens which runs from 26 July-3 October. Bates worked with director Lucy Bailey and designer William Dudley two years ago in the Globe’s production of Titus Andronicus. “With Timon of Athens, she says, “we’re after a delicate elusive world of sound – lots of different string feels (the harp and the oud) as well as steel drums to be used in a very different way. Django specialises in the ironic and off-beat, and so Timon of Athens is right up his street.”
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