PROJECTS | KATE MARLAIS

SOME RECENT PROJECTS...

AGREEMENT (2023/2024)

Lyric Theatre, Belfast & Irish Arts Center, New York

Written by Owen McCafferty

Directed by Charlie Westenra

Music and Sound Design by Kate Marlais

Commissioned and produced by Michael Grandage Company and Lyric Belfast

"Kate Marlais’s percussion-led accompaniment (deftly delivered by Ruairi Glasheen) serves as its own plosive commentary on four days that struggled to reach the outlines of a different, putative future for Northern Ireland." - British Theatre Guide (AGREEMENT, Lyric Belfast)

"Conor Murphy’s set, Eoin Robinson’s video design and Kate Marlais’s sound design convey the scrutiny of the outside world and global media via an oval window showing projections of televised speeches, radio studio clocks or a stormy Belfast sky through which Tony Blair’s helicopter arrives with comic fanfare." - The Guardian (AGREEMENT, Lyric Belfast)

BLOOD HARMONY (2022)

ThickSkin, touring UK incl. The Lowry & Traverse Theatre Edinburgh

Created by Matthew Bulgo, Jonnie Riordan and Jess Williams

Music by The Staves

Musical Director and Musical Arrangements by Kate Marlais

Commissioned and produced by ThickSkin and Lawrence Batley Theatre, in co-production with Watford Palace Theatre and Wales Millennium Centre and

supported by The Lowry

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“The role of music in the show is what makes Blood Harmony particularly special... Sound designer Neil Bettles and musical director/arranger Kate Marlais deserve particular credit here, for the different storytelling qualities that the

songs can take on, able to in turn fill the theatre like a cavernous church, or

move through time in the snow.” - WhatsOnStage (BLOOD HARMONY, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival)

“The script’s emotional set pieces are amplified by bursts of song,

composed by the indie-folk trio The Staves, with musical arrangements by

Kate Marlais...performed in beautiful close harmony by the cast.” - The Times (BLOOD HARMONY, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival)

"...the songs scattered through the show....are pretty and melodic and, with the harmonic arrangements of Kate Marlais, ...strikingly sung" - The Guardian (BLOOD HARMONY, The Lowry)

"...the singing is spellbinding" - The Stage (BLOOD HARMONY, Lawrence Batley Theatre)

"Kate Marlais’ arrangements conjuring up powerful harmonies" - The Reviews Hub (BLOOD HARMONY, Lawrence Batley Theatre)

A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN (2021)

A filmed dramatisation of Virginia Woolf's feminist masterpiece for the London Library Literary Festival and screened at Rio Cinema Dalston

Directed by Charlie Westenra

Written by Linda Mashall-Griffiths

Music and Sound Design by Kate Marlais

Starring Nina Sosanya, Colin Tierney and Sophie Melville