26 Mar 2014
I’m thrilled to be MDing a new production of Cabaret in Northern Ireland later in the year. The casting call is available on the Bruiser Theatre Company website. http://www.bruisertheatrecompany.com/cabaret—casting-call.html
27 Feb 2014
Molly Wobbly is having a short run at The Phoenix Artist Club. I’m pleased to be involved as musical supervisor for this staged concert version.
LEANNE JONES is returning to the role of Margaret Brown. She is being joined by CHRISTOPHER FINN, CONLETH KANE, RUSSELL MORTON and KATE ENGLAND and new to the cast LUCY GARRIOCH, ALASTAIR BROOKSHAW and JORDAN LEE DAVIES.
The story is tells of the women of Little Happening. All three are trapped in loveless marriages and stuck with failing businesses. There is only one person who can help them – a woman they’ve never met. Her name is Molly Wobbly. Margaret, Ruth and Jemma receive unexpected makeovers when a stranger arrives on Mammary Lane in the acclaimed musical comedy by PAUL BOYD that was the talk of the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The show runs from 8-19 March 2014 and tickets available from www.mollywobbly.com.
28 Jan 2014
After the whirlwind of rehearsals and performance schedule of Santa Claus The Musical, I was pleased to spend a few days R&R is Cornwall. Whilst there I visited The Rowena Cade Exhibition Centre at The Minack Theatre in Porthcurno. I was thrilled to see the display for the coveted Minack Theatre Award was featuring Moving Stories’ 2012 production of Twelfth Night for which I composed the music.
28 Jan 2014
I am pleased to be working with Bruiser Theatre Company again this spring. I will be composing music for there forthcoming production of The Nose. The play opens at The MAC in Belfast prior to an Irish Tour and will be directed by LISA MAY.
In this fresh new adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s classic short story, Alexey Kovaliov, a mid-level government bureaucrat, awakens one morning horrified to discover that his nose has run off.
13 Dec 2013
It would, of course, be unfair of me to give away the plot lines but, what I can say is, along the way we meet a colony of singing penguins, two seriously cool dancing polar bears, a horde of singing crows, almost all of Santa’s reindeer (including the one with the bright red nose) and all of this happens to a musical score that contains some of the best Christmas songs ever written.
The Sussex Newspaper, 13 December 2013
http://www.paulholmanassociates.co.uk/showinfo.asp?showID=100070
8 Nov 2013
Matthew Reeve’s atmospheric music, which paints vivid pictures and harmonious memories.
Jane Coyle, 8 November 2013, Irish Theatre Magazine
http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/Reviews/Current/The-Caucasian-Chalk-Circle-by-Bertolt-Brecht