Theatre & Dance

Tic created the music and sound for the online presentation of Constellation St by Matthew Bulgo during April and May 2020. The production was presented by National Theatre Wales and Sherman Theatre in partnership with BBC Cymru Wales and BBC Arts. Dan Jones directs for The Other Room assisted by Nerida Bradley. The cast includes Rakie Ayola, Matthew Gravelle, Rebecca Hayes and Julian Lewis Jones.

Director: Dan Jones

Assistant Director: Nerida Bradley

Writer: Matthew Bulgo

Stage Manager: Amy Wildgoose

Technicians: Gareth Brierley & Dewi Jones

During December 2019 to April 2020 Tic acted as mentor for the Ty Cerdd and Hijinx Theatre CoDI Move collaborative project. Five Welsh and Wales based composers were embedded in the the five Hijinx Theatre Hubs across Wales where they collaborated with actor/movement performers and choreographers to create a short movement piece.

Touring Wales during October and November 2019, Tic created music and sound design for ‘The Invisible Woman’ by Ailsa Jenkins. This one woman show was performed by Nicola Reynolds and directed by Chelsey Gilliard.

Director: Chelsey Gillard

Writer: Ailsa Jenkins

Lighting Designer: Angharad Evans

Designer: Ruth Stringer

Tic collaborated with National Dance Company Wales on the outdoor performance of Rygbi – Annwyl i mi | Dear To Me. She is working alongside Artistic Director and Choreographer Fearghus O Conchuir, creating bespoke, new music alongside the new choreography. For more information please follow this link. 

During March and April 2019 Tic created the score for National Theatre Wales’ production of Storm.3_ created by Mike Brookes. Here, Tic collaborated with electronic composer and hardware designer Odilon Marcenaro in the creation of the score.

Tic created the music and sound design for Emily Hinshelwood’s play Cracked. Cracked toured across Wales in February 2019.

Director: Louise Osborn

Writer: Emily Hinshelwood

Designer: Becky Davies

Returning to The Other Room theatre at Porter’s, Cardiff, Tic created sound design and music for Matthew Bulgo’s work The Awkward Years. The one woman show was scored with environmental sound and EDM.

Producer: Jenny Sturt

Director: Dan Jones

Writer: Matthew Bulgo

Lighting Designer: Angharad Evans

Designer: Hilary Statts

Alongside fellow John Hardy Music composer Sam Barnes, Tic created the sound and music for the National Theatre Wales production The Tide Whisperer written by Louise Wallwein for promenade performance in Tenby.

Writer: Louise Wallwein

Director: Kully Thiarai

Emerging Director: Nia Morris

Designer: Camilla Clarke

Lighting Designer: Ceri James

Sound Designer: Mike Beer

Video Designer: Simon Clode

Tic created music and sound for Willy Hudson’s new play Bottom directed by Rachel Lemon. The work has been toured and performed across the UK.

Director: Rachel Lemon

Writer: Willy Hudson

During May  – June 2018 Tic worked alongside Opera Sonic and Welsh National Opera leading creative school workshops at John Frost School Newport. Here students created a musical performance to celebrate the 100 years since women got the vote and to celebrate the Suffragette movement. The work was performed at the Riverfront Theatre, Newport.

‘The Collier’s Son’ is a movement, sound and video work which explores the impact of the Industrial Revolution on family and community. Featuring choreography and performance by Angharad Matthews and performed at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, May 2016.

The work was also performed at The Sleeper Society electronic music showcase at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff in January 2017.

Created by Tic Ashfield

Choreographer | Performer: Angharad Matthews

Created by Elaine Paton, ‘Moment(os) of Leaving’ was a site specific work which explored issues of mental health and marked the closing of Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff.

Tic worked closely with a team of dancers, actors and visual artists to create this promenade performance. The audience were taken through a series of ‘treatments’ during the show, which consisted of individual but thematically connected performances including solo and group movement pieces, monologues and video / design / archive installations. Each part of the production took place within a different part of the psychiatric wing, including the male and female wards.

To create the score, Tic predominately used found sounds from within the hospital itself as well as brass, woodwind and piano writing.

Alongside Benjamin Talbott, Tic composed the score for Roger Williams’ ‘Saturday Night Forever’ in 2015. The one man play tells the story of a man, living in Cardiff, who finds love and then tragically loses it because of hate crime.

Music and sound was used throughout the show to give the impression of clubs, bars and pubs as well as supporting the emotional journey of the story.

‘The Gathering’ was a sight specific theatre performance by National Theatre Wales and The Louise Ann Wilson Company which took place on a Snowdonian Hill Farm in 2014.

The soundscape below showcases the variety of sounds collected during the development of the show.

Director: Ann Louise Wilson

Writer: Gillian Clarke

Tic worked alongside Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru to create the score for the promenade theatre piece ‘Tir Sir Gar’ in 2013.

Director: Marc Rees

Writer: Roger Williams

Producer: Sian Thomas

Sound Designer: Mike Beer

Film: Simon Clode

‘Cold Rolling’ was a contemporary dance work created for the Adain Avion Cultural Olympiad in collaboration with Marc Rees, Tanja Raman, Ballet Cymru and John Hardy.

Director: Marc Rees

Choreographer: Tanja Raman

Co-Composer: John Hardy