THOSE EYES, THAT MOUTH
2003
GRID IRON
A site-specific theatre production about fear, isolation and dreams of flying
DIRECTOR
Ben Harrison
SOUNDTRACK INFO
Digital soundscape and live vocals. Features Your Truth (an original song written for the production) and my interpretation of the George Gershwin classic They Can't Take That Away From Me.
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Premiered at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a site-specific promenade production in a tenement flat at No. 33 Abercromby Place, in Edinburgh's New Town. A Scottish tour followed including Tron Theatre, Glasgow; Eden Court, Inverness; MacRobert, Stirling.
The production was remounted in 2005 in Beirut, Lebanon supported by the British Council.
AWARDS
The production was received with critical acclaim and was the recipient of several awards during the 2003 Edinburgh Festival including a Herald Angel, Herald Devil, Stage Award and a Scotsman Fringe First. My soundtrack was nominated for Best Use Of Music at the 2004 Critics Awards For Theatre In Scotland.
RELATED WORKS
Soundtracks for other Grid Iron productions include:
Muster Station: Leith (2022)
Jury Play (2017)
What Remains (2011)
Barflies (2009)
The Devil’s Larder (2005)
Archive recordings of extracts from the soundtrack to Those Eyes, That Mouth (2003).
Written & Produced by David Paul Jones
© ℗ 2003 Blue Banyan Music
Features in the album:
’Theatre Works Vol 2 - Vocal Music’
“One of those perfectly-sculpted theatre events in which every element seems to glow with an inner sense of beauty and meaning... as rich, beautiful and completely satisfying an 80 minutes as you are ever likely to experience.”
THE SCOTSMAN
CREDITS
Created by Ben Harrison | Cait Davis | David Paul Jones
Director: Ben Harrison
Dramaturg: Zinnie Harris
Composer & Sound Designer: David Paul Jones
Set Designer: Dick Bird
Lighting Designer: George Tarbuck
Cast: Cait Davis | David Paul Jones
Images © Richard Campbell