Matthew Strachan | Composer & Lyricist

March 2011
An album of Matthew's incidental theatre music is now on release on the Nessus Records label at iTunes and Amazon.

The compliation includes music from Ben Brown's THE PROMISE, Tim Luscombe's HUNGRY GHOSTS, Arlene Hutton's LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC, and Nigel Dennis's THE MAKING OF MOO.  preview tracks

November 2010
Matthew provided music for the premiere of Tim Luscombe's play, HUNGRY GHOSTS at the Orange Tree Theatre this November. Tim Luscombe directed with design by Tim Meacock.

Top British racing driver Tyler Jones arrives in Shanghai for the Chinese Grand Prix. His life comprises airports, hotels, racetracks, corporate events and 'brolly dollies'. For Tyler, Shanghai is no different from Bahrain or Melbourne. He’s happy to toe the corporate party line as long as he can do what he lives to do: race cars. But when he meets and falls for Chinese dissident Pin-de, their worlds collide. Racing ambition seems suddenly futile set against Pin-de’s struggle for survival in authoritarian China. How can he square his new found awareness about the reality of life and death in China, and help Pin-de, without losing everything he has?

'full of passion'
The Times

'...the author's own production has a hectic vitality, and is well acted.'
The Guardian

'...could hardly be more topical or on the button.'
Time Out