Lost In The Forest (Music from the RSC's A Midsummer Night's Dream) Will Gregory

• 1 Threatening Bass 02:35
• 2 Globes and Bubbles 02:40
• 3 Titania's Lullaby 01:55
• 4 Bubble Sky 02:26
• 5 Oberon's Deceit 01:36
• 6 Robin's Song 01:32
• 7 Loverlorn Aftermath 02:42
• 8 Falling Star 02:15
• 9 Mist Clearing 02:16
• 10 Bottom's Song 02:52
• Total Runtime 22:49

Info for Lost In The Forest (Music from the RSC's A Midsummer Night's Dream)

Will Gregory is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer and one half of the electro-pop duo Goldfrapp. He is also the founding member of Will Gregory’s Moog Ensemble, who last year released their debut album Heat Ray: The Archimedes Project. Lost In The Forest: Music from the RSC’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the music Gregory created for the RSC’s production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which originally premiered in Stratford and then transferred to London, in late 2024, for a sold-out, five-star run at the Barbican.

The RSC production, directed by Eleanor Rhode and starring Matthew Baynton, Katherine Pearce, Sirine Saba, Boadicea Ricketts, Andrew Richardson and Dawn Sievewright, garnered many plaudits as ‘a ravishing fusion of flamboyancy, surrealism and raucous fun’ (The Guardian), and ‘a glorious production of Shakespeare's most spellbinding comedy…this truly is a night of fantasy’ (London Theatre).

Director Eleanor Rhode showed Gregory early set designs, with plans to make the fairies exist as light sources or light beams; ethereal, neon and a bit disconnected... This visual approach gave Gregory “a kind-of carte blanche to think about using synths and electronic sounds. We were on a pathway to using synths and making some sounds that reflected this tingling, fleeting electricity.”

“I actually wrote a lot of the music completely independently with the thought that there’s going to be a certain forest-y mood, there's going to be some songs, that's about all I knew… plus the ethereal, neon, flickering effect for the fairies. I demo’d some of it and sent it on, I like to send the director music, and was then able to get feedback from Eleanor while I was writing, which was really helpful.”

“I've always liked music in theatre or film where the music is strong enough to stand on its own two legs. Some of the time you're doing a mood that is very much in the background and, here, we've got dialogue... We’ve got Shakespeare! You don't want to trample all over that, obviously. It's always great when you can get the music to run in parallel rather than completely underscoring what's happening on stage. And sometimes Eleanor would put it somewhere I hadn’t imagined which was fantastic.”

“Also, as a composer, when you feel ‘I'm actually functional here’, I'm able to help the technical process of getting from one scene to another to happen, with a little interlude, that always makes me feel good…”

Martyn Barker, drums, guitar, additional vocals
Andy Davis, guitar, bass, additional vocals
Alex Lee, guitar, bass, additional vocals
Andy Taylor, guitar, additional vocals
Will Gregory, synthesizers, additional vocals
Katherine Pearce, vocals

Written, produced and mixed by Will Gregory
Engineered by Silas Chandler Blackburn, Alessandro Baldessari

Will Gregory
is a multi-instrumentalist English musician and record producer from Bristol, England.

Gregory formed electronic pop group Goldfrapp in 1999 alongside bandmate Alison Goldfrapp. Together they have released seven albums, most recently ‘Silver Eye’ in 2017, and scored a string of hits including ‘Strict Machine’, ‘Ooh La La’, ‘Lovely Head’ and ‘A&E’. The multi-platinum selling band have been nominated for the Mercury Prize, multiple Grammy Awards and won an Ivor Novello for ‘Strict Machine’. Goldfrapp have also scored the soundtracks to the films My Summer of Love and Nowhere Boy, and wrote the music for Carrie Cracknell’s National Theatre acclaimed production of Medea.

Outside of Goldfrapp, Gregory has performed with artists including Tears for Fears, Peter Gabriel, The Cure, Portishead and Michael Nyman. His first opera Picard in Space premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 2011, and in 2014 he was commissioned to produce a piece for orchestra and Moog, performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra. Gregory also wrote part of the score for the National Theatre of Scotland’s James III trilogy in 2016 which was subsequently performed nationally.

Outside of pop producing and touring, Gregory has an extensive scoring credits list, with multiple documentaries (Serengeti 1 & 2, Spy in the Wild, Arcadia), Film & TV scores (BBC’s ‘Chloe’, AMC’s ‘Soulmates’), as well as operas, concert works, and music for theatre. He also writes/arranges for and performs with his own Will Gregory Moog Ensemble, a ten-piece orchestra of mono synths, which performs synth versions of new and existing works.

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