Joshua Van Tassel

I’m very lucky to have written some music for a great play called Norway Today, put on by everyone’s favorite independent theatre company Theatre SMASH. It’s a very affecting play revolving around the stories of two people who meet in a chat room and decide to kill themselves together by jumping off a very very large cliff in Norway.

Sound bleak? It’s not actually. The cast and direction bring out all the humility and humor the subject matter could offer, and the sound design and usage of video really sew things up. Anyway, enough with the commercial, go see it at the Tarragon Theatre at Bathurst and Dupont starting Tuesday the 9th. Here’s a clip of one of the pieces I wrote, and a shot from the first run I saw….