Playthings.
Written and directed by Scott McArdle.
Sound Design and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett.
Presented by Black Swan State Theatre Company, 2021. Originally presented by Second Chance Theatre Company in 2019.
Lucy and Arnold are 13. Both outcasts. Both have seen hard times. Both irrevocably changed from one adventure into the bush looking for a dying kangaroo. Now they must navigate a wasteland of broken hearts, peed pants and carrot spew. It’s homework, hormones and homicide. A hit of The Blue Room Theatre 2019 season, this modern suburban coming-of-age story explores how we hurt each other, how we help those that are hurting, and how your music taste is never better than when you’re a teenager.
Written and directed by Scott McArdle.
Sound Design and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett.
Presented by Black Swan State Theatre Company, 2021. Originally presented by Second Chance Theatre Company in 2019.
Lucy and Arnold are 13. Both outcasts. Both have seen hard times. Both irrevocably changed from one adventure into the bush looking for a dying kangaroo. Now they must navigate a wasteland of broken hearts, peed pants and carrot spew. It’s homework, hormones and homicide. A hit of The Blue Room Theatre 2019 season, this modern suburban coming-of-age story explores how we hurt each other, how we help those that are hurting, and how your music taste is never better than when you’re a teenager.
Composer and sound designer Rebecca Riggs-Bennett makes the most of some classic tunes, setting up the soundtrack to Lucy and Arnold’s future lives. Riggs-Bennett enhances scenes with sound effects and plays with an emotional palette to complement characters’ responses." - ArtsHub
A highlight of this show for me was the use of music. The music perfectly reflected the clear emotions of the characters and worked to transport the audience back to ‘simpler’ times" - Perth Happenings
Whale Fall.
Directed by Mel Cantwell. Written by Ian Sinclair. Produced by The Kabuki Drop.
Sound Design and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett.
Commissioned by and presented by Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and co-presented with Perth Festival. 2021.
A poetic reimagining of the classic Australian seaside drama for our cataclysmic times.
Nadine returns to her beachside home, and the family she abandoned, to reconnect with her daughter. Now oceans apart, she must navigate her ex-husband’s anger at her departure and learn to accept and support her now son Caleb, with his desire to begin medically affirming his gender. Whale Fall charts the tidal force of change as bodies, species and environments face the brink of adaptation and transition. This evocative new work brings together a multifaceted WA creative team from different backgrounds that identify with and support trans and queer communities.
Directed by Mel Cantwell. Written by Ian Sinclair. Produced by The Kabuki Drop.
Sound Design and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett.
Commissioned by and presented by Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and co-presented with Perth Festival. 2021.
A poetic reimagining of the classic Australian seaside drama for our cataclysmic times.
Nadine returns to her beachside home, and the family she abandoned, to reconnect with her daughter. Now oceans apart, she must navigate her ex-husband’s anger at her departure and learn to accept and support her now son Caleb, with his desire to begin medically affirming his gender. Whale Fall charts the tidal force of change as bodies, species and environments face the brink of adaptation and transition. This evocative new work brings together a multifaceted WA creative team from different backgrounds that identify with and support trans and queer communities.
The dynamic tempo (sound design and composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett) is sometimes playful, intensifying to a climax and then releasing, only to be followed by a new wave of dynamic emotion, leaving you caught up in the journey." - The Conversation
The Lucky Cat
Written, directed and designed by Yvan Karlsson. Performed by Tristan McInnes and Caitlin McFeat.
Sound Design and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett.
Presented by Monkey Brain Theatre at Subiaco Arts Centre as part of Fringe World.
Supported by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries. https://monkeybraintheatre.com/the-lucky-cat
The Lucky Cat is a meaningful tale, exploring contemporary family dynamics, speaking to both adults and children. It features puppetry and visual theatre to tell a story about luck, fate and optimism, The story features Alex, the unluckiest child in the whole world - she tries, and she tries but can't seem to catch a break, that is until she meets Tet, the luckiest cat in the world. They set out on an epic adventure to retrieve Alex's luck from the world of Fate and along the way learn what luck really is.
Written, directed and designed by Yvan Karlsson. Performed by Tristan McInnes and Caitlin McFeat.
Sound Design and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett.
Presented by Monkey Brain Theatre at Subiaco Arts Centre as part of Fringe World.
Supported by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries. https://monkeybraintheatre.com/the-lucky-cat
The Lucky Cat is a meaningful tale, exploring contemporary family dynamics, speaking to both adults and children. It features puppetry and visual theatre to tell a story about luck, fate and optimism, The story features Alex, the unluckiest child in the whole world - she tries, and she tries but can't seem to catch a break, that is until she meets Tet, the luckiest cat in the world. They set out on an epic adventure to retrieve Alex's luck from the world of Fate and along the way learn what luck really is.
A Tending.
Choreographed by Ellen Hope-Thomson. Performed by Mani Mae Gomes, Jo Omedi and Mitch Spadoro.
Sound Design and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett.
Presented at the State Theatre Centre of WA as part of SITU-8 - a site-specific season of original works.
Produced by STRUT Dance and Tura New Music. 2020.
Three looping choreographic images meditating on theatre anxiety and the ways we can overcome foyer fear by deploying safety devices.
Choreographed by Ellen Hope-Thomson. Performed by Mani Mae Gomes, Jo Omedi and Mitch Spadoro.
Sound Design and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett.
Presented at the State Theatre Centre of WA as part of SITU-8 - a site-specific season of original works.
Produced by STRUT Dance and Tura New Music. 2020.
Three looping choreographic images meditating on theatre anxiety and the ways we can overcome foyer fear by deploying safety devices.
Guardians
Designed, built and programmed by Steven Buckles and Steve Berrick.
Electronic scores produced and composed by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett.
Commissioned by City Of Perth and presented at Winter Fest Perth. 2019. https://steve.berrick.net/guardians
Guardians is a robotic sculpture performance featuring two seemingly autonomous monoliths.
Equipped with internal sound and lighting systems, the technological beings perform ethereal songs, harmonising together among crowds in slow choreographed movements and spatial interventions. Their mission is to establish an order of calm and care. Their motives are ambiguous: are they keeping us safe and happy or are they keeping us in line?
Designed, built and programmed by Steven Buckles and Steve Berrick.
Electronic scores produced and composed by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett.
Commissioned by City Of Perth and presented at Winter Fest Perth. 2019. https://steve.berrick.net/guardians
Guardians is a robotic sculpture performance featuring two seemingly autonomous monoliths.
Equipped with internal sound and lighting systems, the technological beings perform ethereal songs, harmonising together among crowds in slow choreographed movements and spatial interventions. Their mission is to establish an order of calm and care. Their motives are ambiguous: are they keeping us safe and happy or are they keeping us in line?
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Let Me Finish
Sound Design and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett.
Sound Design and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett.
Blueprint
Written, devised and performed by Jessica Russell, Phoebe Sullivan and Sean Crofton.
Sound Design and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett.
Presented by The Blue Room Theatre. 2017.
Now it’s time to leave our host, and our understanding of evolution along with it. Alex, Jayne, and Lewis are the first to reckon with this new reality. Exceptional only for being exceptionally ordinary, the three strangers eagerly join a program designed to produce astronauts in less than six months. The catch? The bodies they go in with may not be the same as the ones they come out with. A thought-provoking new work of physical theatre by an exciting team of Western Australian Academy of the Performing Arts graduates, Blueprint invites us to imagine a world where nothing is impossible.
Written, devised and performed by Jessica Russell, Phoebe Sullivan and Sean Crofton.
Sound Design and Composition by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett.
Presented by The Blue Room Theatre. 2017.
Now it’s time to leave our host, and our understanding of evolution along with it. Alex, Jayne, and Lewis are the first to reckon with this new reality. Exceptional only for being exceptionally ordinary, the three strangers eagerly join a program designed to produce astronauts in less than six months. The catch? The bodies they go in with may not be the same as the ones they come out with. A thought-provoking new work of physical theatre by an exciting team of Western Australian Academy of the Performing Arts graduates, Blueprint invites us to imagine a world where nothing is impossible.
Rebecca Riggs-Bennett fills in the gaps to build and sustain an atmosphere of dread, melancholy and agitation...It complements the performances quite beautifully" - Rhys Tarling, The AU Review.
