xl bully
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XL BULLY by stef smith - Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
director - Rob Watt
movement director - Struan Leslie
voice director - Imogen Reed
set designer - Olivia Jones
costume designer - Archie Lewis
lighting designer - Yiling Liu
sound designer - Enzo Lipley
composer - Jai Martone
stage manager - Holly Evans
deputy stage manager - Mary Haniszweski
asm - Kate Burge
rehearsal asm - Poppy Batten
tech swing - Monty Murphy-Morris
tech swing - Emily Spriggs
photographer - Kirsten McTernan
Sound Designer for a piece involved in the New Season works, XL Bully by Stef Smith, Directed by Rob Watt. Performed in the Studio at the Sherman Theatre and New Diorama Theatre.
Eight friends take a shortcut home after a night out. They end up trapped in a locked room, with something unseen waiting on the other side of the door. As the pressure builds, jokes sharpen, tensions rise, and fear starts to take over. What begins as a darkly comic situation slowly shifts into something stranger and more unsettling. A tense, funny, and provocative new play by Stef Smith about fear, responsibility, and the stories we tell ourselves when we feel threatened.
Programme
rig plans
behind the scenes
This production posed a very interesting challenge…
How do we make the audience believe there is a dog behind that door?
Here’s a quick look at how I achieved this effect.
We had an ASM behind the door acting as our dog and I used contact microphones, along with a speaker placed behind the door to amplify the sound being created.
For the dog noises I used a combination of pre recorded sound effects and some field recordings I captured of a dog who visited us in pre-production.
