Theater Work
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"the original music composed to accompany the production by Sam Harmet ... is an unpredictable, suspenseful and autonomous force"
- The Theatre Times With Casual FreyDay Collaboratively written, designed, and composed by Julia Frey and Sam Day Harmet, Containertopia is a 21st-century take on vaudeville that looks at the ever-shrinking living spaces that New Yorkers submit themselves to. With synthesizer-heavy Weimar cabaret tunes, original music, and projection-based set design, this multimedia cabaret explores and exposes the popular trend of tiny living. Jalopy Theatre, Brooklyn, NY, April 2017. Philly Fringe Festival, September 2017. A synth-pop send-up of techno-utopianism and start-up bros. This byte of multimedia music-theater skewers and scrutinizes the inequalities and myopia of the tech world, based on the book by Keith Spencer. Connecticut College's Ammerman Symposium (February 2018), Live Composition Festival at Gemini & Scorpio Loft in Brooklyn (May 2018), Ars Nova ANT Fest (June 2019) With Irondale Ensemble A cycle of Brecht plays written during Brecht's exile from Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. New original music by Sam Day Harmet written with text from Bertolt Brecht. Muscially eclectic score that nods to Hanns Eisler and Kurt Weill, but lives largely in the present with influences ranging from trip hop, Turkish psycheldia, dub, krautrock and various strains of jazz. Irondale Center, Brooklyn, NY. January 2019 (Galileo), February 2020 (Good Soul of Setzuan), May 2022 (Mother Courage) Other
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