I’ve worked with theatre companies across the UK, composing incidental music, songs and soundscapes for a wide variety of productions.
Faith
Music for four plays by Chris O’Connell and Chinonyerem Odimba, performed on the streets of Coventry. Part of Coventry City of Culture, co-produced with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Production: Coventry City of Culture & Royal Shakespeare Company.
Director: Erica Whyman
Ceremony of Light
A large-scale orchestral piece. After the final performance of Faith, Audiences were invited to gather at dusk to light one of 500 flames to create a final tapestry of lights in the city centre. Celebrating Coventry’s diverse communities.
Production: Coventry City of Culture & Royal Shakespeare Company.
Director: Erica Whyman.
Ostrich Boys
Carl Miller’s adaptation of Keith Gray’s novel for Birmingham Young Rep. Original production.
Adaptation: Carl Miller
Production: Birmingham Rep
Director: Hannah Phillips
The Turn of the Screw
Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the Henry James novel as a two-hander. The music was created using only the sampled voice of actress Sophie Ward.
Production: PW Productions & Belgrade Theatre
Cast: Sophie Ward and Christopher Cazenove.
Director: Bob Eaton.
Two
By Jim Cartwright
Production: Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, 2019
Cast: Eithne Brown and Neil Caple
Director: Bob Eaton
Zameen
In the cotton fields of Punjab, Baba, an ageing farmer, tends to his crop and pins his hopes of prosperity on GM seeds and Western pesticides.
Playwright: Satinder Chohan
Production: Kali Theatre Tour
Director: Janet Steel
Another Paradise
Satirical comedy about biometric ID and confused identities.
Playwright: Sayan Kent
Production: Edinburgh 2008, and national Tour, 2009
Director: Janet Steel
Paper Thin
A dark comedy that examines the intricacies of immigration and the extent to which one man is willing to go to achieve his goals.
Playwright: Azma Dar
Production: Kali Theatre Tour, 2006
Director: Janet Steel
Chaos
Mr Rizvi’s dreams of a united world are thrown into turmoil by events following 9/11. By Azma Dar. Kali Theatre Tour. Directed by Janet Steel.
Playwright: Azma Dar
Production: Kali Theatre Tour
Director: Janet Steel
Bells!
A butcher’s shop by day and a brothel by night. A controversial play telling a love story across barriers of race, culture and taboo.
Playwright: Yasmin Whittaker-Khan
Production: Kali Theatre / Birmingham Rep
Director: Poonam Brah.
Calcutta Kosher
Two sisters return to a little-known Indian Jewish community in crumbling Calcutta, home of their childhood.
Playwright: Shelley Silas
Production: Southwark Playhouse, Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Director: Janet Steel.
Sock’em With Honey
Feroza wants to marry her Jewish boyfriend, David. But, her family want her to follow tradition and settle down with a nice Parsee (Zoroastrian) boy.
Playwright: Bapsi Sidwa
Production: Kali Theatre Tour
Director: Janet Steel.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Adaptation by Simon Williams from the Arthur Conan Doyle book.
Co-production: Paul Farrah Productions / Belgrade Theatre
Truckers
Adaptation by Bob Eaton from the Terry Pratchett novel.
Co-production: Harrogate Theatre, Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, 2002.
Director: Rob Swain.
“Sayan Kent’s soundtrack is attractive” – Yorkshire Post Today
Clinging to the Rock Face
A dance piece exploring a woman’s descent into dementia.
Performed at: Cockpit Theatre, Midlands Arts Centre.
Devised & directed by: Heather Jeffery.
A Hard Rain
About the 1998 Northamptonshire floods. By
Playwright: Richard Pinner.
Production: Theatre Royal Northampton, Community Tour.
Director: Janet Steel.
Music for Screen
Skint
I wrote the music for this series of eight short films in 2022.
Producer: Hopscotch Films, BBC 4