Adrienne Quartly

Adrienne trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her sound designs for Told by an Idiot include Napoleon Disrobed, Get Happy, The Ghost Train, Too Clever by Half, You Can’t Take It With You, And the Horse You Rode In On and I Am Thomas.

Other work includes Opening Skinner’s Box (Improbable), Splendour (Donmar Warehouse), Bad Jews (Theatre Royal Haymarket), A Raisin in the Sun (Sheffield Crucible), The Whipping Man, After Electra (Theatre Royal Plymouth), The Ladykillers (Watermill), Every Last Trick (Spymonkey), Sex And The Three Day Week (Liverpool Playhouse), Grand Guignol (Southwark), Untold Stories (West Yorkshire Playhouse), A Tale Of Two Cities, Body of an American (Royal and Derngate), Inside Wagner’s Head (Royal Opera House), Fräuline Julie (Barbican/Schaübuhne), Rings Of Saturn (Halle Kalk, Cologne), Thomas Hobbes (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Container (Young Vic), The Shawl (Young Vic),Stockholm (Frantic Assembly), The Roundabout Season (Paines Plough), 93.2FM (Royal Court, London), 4000 Miles (Theatre Royal Bath), The Fastest Clock In The Universe (Hampstead Theatre) and Woyzeck (St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York).

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In theatre music can be a seductive and powerful element, and can make poor material appear stronger than it actually is. We don’t rush to include music but try to let it in gradually, as ever remaining conscious of juxtaposition and surprise. I thought I would share ten iconic tracks that have featured in our work over the past twenty seven years. Enjoy.
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Heard by an idiot

In theatre music can be a seductive and powerful element, and can make poor material appear stronger than it actually is. We don’t rush to include music but try to let it in gradually, as ever remaining conscious of juxtaposition and surprise. I thought I would share ten iconic tracks that have featured in our work over the past twenty seven years. Enjoy.