Score by Oliver Thomas

Theatre Productions

In Association with Red Rope Theatre

Since 2015 I have had the great pleasure and honour of composing the musical score and sound design for many of their stage productions.

I have long been a proud friend of - and collaborator with - Bristol's multiple award-winning Red Rope Theatre.

All of the full pieces for each play can be listened to here →

a white clock tower sitting in the middle of a forest

The play explores the eternal battle between faith and reason, madness and sanity, love and terror in the beautiful surroundings of Arnos Vale Cemetary, a setting that holds as many dark and sinister secrets as the great count himself.

In an attempt to defy death Frankenstein creates a creature, a monster that is both childlike in its innocence but repulsive in its form. The horror stricken Frankenstein drives out the bewildered monster into an unforgiving world where it is met with cruelty and pain wherever it goes. Broken and desperate the creature determines to cause its creator the same crippling pain and those that the doctor loves most are going to suffer.

The Governess, a woman haunted by the mysterious past of her new home, yet enchanted by the children who live in it. She soon comes to realise she must protect the young from the dead; the tortured souls of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel, who are a terrifying presence at Bly and seek to possess the children they once knew.

'Dr Jeckyll & Mr Hyde' is a dark, psychological filled with repression, liberation addiction and malice. In an attempt to free his darker nature without suffering the consequences and remain the respectable man that society thinks he is, Dr Jeckyll breaks through the laws of nature with devastating consequences. This is a story of the human condition, of identity and friendship. How fgar is one man willing to go to find his true self?

Four thrilling tellings of original uncanny tales, all by Bristol writers. Seated in the atmospheric mansion of one of Bristol's grandest estates, four actors read to you tales never before heard.

Poverty, disease and hunger are three things that Ebenezer Scrooge has little concern for. The rich are indulgent and ignorant, the poor are dying around them. Three spirits will come to visit...you can't escape the truth when it's haunting you.

The locals whisper of a family curse:death at the fangs of a beast so foul, its blood curdling howls can be heard across the moor as it prowls the night. Is this a sinister lie preserved for generations, or the work of the supernatural? Can Holmes and Watson uncover the truth, or will they become the next victims?

Our narrator visits his ailing friend Roderick Usher at his ancestral home, a decaying mansion. Roderick and his twin sister, Madeline, are both consumed by mysterious illnesses, and Roderick believes the house itself is sentient and influencing their fates. Madeline dies, and after her entombment in the family vault within the house, strange occurrences escalate. The narrator and Roderick become increasingly agitated, culminating in a storm and a horrifying revelation...

- See also -

Crooked Worlds: Dark Fairytales I, II & III

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Dracula (2015)

The Turn of the Screw (2017)

Frankenstein (2018)

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (2019)

Penny Dreadful (2021)

A Christmas Carol (2022)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (2023)

The Fall of the House of Usher (2024)