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 2009
Matthew has composed a musical score for Nigel Dennis's play THE MAKING OF MOO at the Orange Tree Theatre this autumn. Sam Walters will be directing and the design will be by Tim Meacock.

At the farewell ceremony for the creator of the new dam, a murder is committed. The engineer, Frederick Compton, learns that while he may have brought this backward nation electricity and water, he has killed their river god. He and his wife cannot simply abandon the country to a lawless, godless future. They must stay. A new god must be created.

First presented at the Royal Court with a cast that included Joan Plowright, John Osborne and George Devine as the civil engineer turned high priest, who said of this biting satire "exactly what I want to have said in my theatre."

'intelligent, funny and blasphemous'
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