Original Score

David recently finished work on the music for the world première of Shiverman by the New York playwright James Sheldon, which is currently being performed at Theatre 503 in Battersea, south London. Working again with Primavera Productions, with whom he recently composed the scores for the critically acclaimed Murder in the Cathedral and Antigone, the play has already received excellent reviews and two nominations for the Off West End Awards, including Best New Play.

David has just begun working on the score for Fiendish Media's latest film, Forbidden, which tells an alternative story of the Garden of Eden. Considering what might have happened in the days of Genesis, the story explores the possible scenario that played out between the first man and woman and the Devil himself.

The music for the film is drawing upon suspense and horror traditions, mixed with influences of Gregorian plainchant and religious choral music, with the idea of creating a score that preludes the Fall and the history of the evil of humankind that followed.

The exciting new production of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker, has been receiving much attention from critics during its run at the Southwark Playhouse in May-June 2011.

David Allen composed and recorded the original score for this London Fringe production, with elements from Middle Eastern music and culture as well as a Western approach of unifying the different musical ideas and narrative strands, with a considerable amount of singing and dancing by the large chorus.

David has been commissioned to compose the music for a major new production of Sophocles' Classical tragedy Antigone at the Southwark Playhouse in the late spring of 2011. Working once again with the critically acclaimed Primavera Productions after their highly successful collaboration on T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral last autumn - and using an exciting modern translation by Timberlake Wertenbaker - this will be David's debut on the London stage.

David Allen's original music score composed for the Oxford Playhouse's production of T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral has received overwhelming praise from critics who came to see the show on the opening night.