 Sound Designer - September 2015 ***** The Guardian, The Herald, The Independent, The Scotsman, All Edinburgh Theatre, Broadway Baby & The Stage. For further info visit here  Composer / Musician - August 2015
Scotsman Fringe First Award Winner **** The Herald, The Scotsman, Broadway Baby, The List "... the show is driven along by Michael John McCarthy’s disturbingly powerful score, a bold, rock-inflected collage of new material and familiar tunes, which borrows from sources including Tom Waits and The Handsome Family to conjure up songs that are brilliantly performed by this multi-talented company, and that reflect the rawness of the emotions unleashed by this strange story of oppression and loss, with just a hint, in the end, of possible redemption." Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman  Composer/Sound Designer - August 2015
Scotsman Fringe First Award Winner **** The Guardian, The Herald, The Scotsman, The Times, The List, The Skinny, Time Out, Across the Arts, British Theatre Guide, Edinburgh Guide, Fest. "...underscored beautifully by Michael John McCarthy." Neil Cooper, The Herald.  Sound Designer - May 2015
***** The Guardian, The Scotsman, TV Bomb **** The Herald, The Times, The List, The Public Reviews "A meticulous, compelling triumph [...] Gareth Nicholls makes it theatrically compelling by drawing out concentrated performances from the four-strong cast. Behind the Perspex wall of Neil Haynes’s interrogation-cell set, given emotional focus by Stuart Jenkins’ lighting and disturbed by the low-level rumble of Michael John McCarthy’s score, they play with absolute attentiveness" Mark Fisher, The Guardian  Composer / Musical Director - April 2015
**** The Guardian, The Herald, The Scotsman, The Stage, The Public Reviews " delivered with terrific energy and wit by an impressive cast of eight, and directed with a fierce, surreal flamboyance by Dominic Hill, with astonishing live music and sound by Michael John McCarthy and Guy Coletta" Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman  Composer / Sound Designer - October 2014
***** The Times, Edinburgh Guide **** The Guardian, The Herald, The Observer, The Scotsman, The Stage "... so connected are its mixture of forms and styles in Kemp's rendering of the play that it never draws attention to them, even as Michael John McCarthy's score seems to whisper from the land itself." Neil Cooper, The Herald |
