As with The Playlist, the rules are simple: one track for every production, so long as it captures something of the essence of the play (or production).
Prologue: Brush Up Your Shakespeare, Cole Porter *
Taming of the Shrew: Kiss With A Fist, Florence + the Machine
Henry VI: The Queen’s Funeral March, Henry Purcell
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Titus Andronicus: Revenge Wheel, Elliot Goldenthal *
Richard III: A Hard Day’s Night, Peter Sellers
The Comedy of Errors: Boys Will Be Boys, The Ordinary Boys
Love’s Labour’s Lost: I Get A Kick Out Of You, Cole Porter *
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Introduction - Over hill, Over dale,
Benjamin Britten *
Romeo and Juliet: Talk Show Host, Radiohead *
Richard II: Bolingbroke, Paul Englishby *
King John: John is King, Marc Streitenfeld
The Merchant of Venice
Henry 4: Anarchy in the U.K.
Much Ado
About Nothing: Overture, from Much Ado
Interlude – To build a Globe: Building the Barn, Maurice Jarre
Henry V: The Half-killed,
Dario Marianelli
As You Like It: Life in Technicolor, Coldplay
Julius Caesar: Stuff Happens, Alan John
Hamlet: “When I am laid in earth”, Henry Purcell *
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Twelfth Night: Gay Pirates, Cosmo Jarvis
Troilus and Cressida: Briseis and Achilles, James Horner
Othello: Rap Othello, The Reduced Shakespeare Company *
Measure for Measure: Boy Gets Girl, Alan John
All’s Well That Ends Well: Hunter, Björk *
Timon of Athens
King Lear: Untitled (music box opening), Bree van Reyk *
Macbeth: Red Right Hand, Nick
Cave
Coriolanus: End Crawl, from Coriolanus, Ilan Eshkeri *
Pericles: pulse:heart:beat, Synergy Percussion & TaikOz
Cymbeline: Deception, Hanan Townshend
The Winter’s Tale: Turn to Stone, Electric Light Orchestra
The Tempest: Prospera’s Coda, Elliot Goldenthal *
Two Noble Kinsmen: Angel/Golden Years, Carter Burwell, David Bowie
Cardenio: ‘Marinero Soy de Amor’,
Jordi Savall
Epilogue – Henry VIII: Fantasia on Greensleeves, Ralph Vaughan
Williams
* INDICATES TRACKS THAT WERE FEATURED IN THE PRODUCTION.
