Theatre Development Fund – TDF: What does home sound like? Late Irish dramatist Brian Friel raises that question in The Home Place, and for the play's New York premiere, Irish Repertory Theatre has enlisted Ryan Rumery to come up with an answer.
This year's recipient of the Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Sound Design, Rumery has worked on more than 250 productions, several at Irish Rep.
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This article wasn't exactly what I expected when I clicked on the title, but after reading the article itself I was still moved and intrigued by what was being done. While it's very cool to so deeply incorporate a song into a play, especially without it becoming a musical or too focused on music, and the meaning of the song is significant, it isn't a new idea to imbue a song with deep meaning to a character or remind them of their youth or their home. It seems like a clever use of sound to establish, and the process of creating it and the care put into making the sound just right is fascinating, but overall, I don't see it as something groundbreaking or especially new like this title lead me to believe it would be.
Still, the use of a theme or refrain to define a character's innermost self and the meaning of a play is interesting, especially with how this show uses a traditional song to reiterate the characters connection between the old and new, and the two warring sides, and to show her struggle in finding out where she fits in the conflict and how her actions effect it.
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