Vinegar Tom

By Car yl Churchill

Directed by Joanna Tyler

Music Composition and Sound Design by Jenifer Jaseau
Voices by Kate O’Brien, Greta Gardiner, and Jenifer Jaseau
Stage Manager- Savel Sabol

Sound Cues f or Voices

Beginning
• Actor Breath Motives, moving the space, 1 time through
• Kate and Greta on 2 notes (G and D), actors wait for pitch
• Jen text from Lament for Witches — as if from the wind
o “Who are the witches now
Look in the mirror tonight
Would they have hanged you then?
Ask how they’re stopping you now
Where have all the witches gone”
• Continue to hold notes until actors are in place

Scene 6
• End of Scene 5: “Just tell her my trouble, there’s no harm”
• Oh, Doct or --Verse 1 begins at transition, continued through action
• Layered harsh whispers
• Begin Verse 2 starting after Betty: “…. because I was screaming”
• Leave space for “womb”
• End when verse done, and wait….
• Begin fade out transition (hmmm… 3 notes) after
Doctor: “You will soon be well enough to be married”

Scene 7 transition in t o Sc ene 8

• Margery: “…stinking old witch can’t hurt us”
• Layered whispers of text, Jen start, whirling wind effect from text
o “Find something to burn
Let it go up in smoke
Burn your troubles away!!”
Scene 14 “Pricking” in 3 parts

Susan: “Don’t touch me, I’ll not be touched by a witch”

PART 1
• Bellringer: “has any complaint against any woman for a witch”
• In Round: Kate 1-5, add Jen 2x with b6th, add Greta 3x with 7th oooo
• Once all in~~ hold chord cluster, subito piano, staggered breath
• End at Packer: “I thank God that he has brought me again to where I
am needed”

PART 2
~Joan~ “if you prick that place with a pin no blood comes out and the
witch feels nothing at all”
• Jack: “Hold still you old witch”
• Greta and Jen Breath Motive
• End at Packer “Here’s her spot. / Hardly a speck here”

~Alice~ “we’ve others to attend to….next please”

• With continuing breath, add Kate with gradually more intense
wavering notes at Alice’s entrance, begin when hands hit boxes
• End at Packer: “Oh, its tiring work. / Set this one aside.”

PART 3
• Susan: “I never wished any harm”
• Jen and Kate start note cycle, Greta on Breath Motive
o 1 2 / 1 2 3 / 1 2 3 4 / 1 2 3 4 5 ooooo
o G D/ G D Eb /G D Eb F / G D Eb F G
• End at Packer: “Just as you pricked your baby” with decrescendo fade

Ending
• Alice: “If I only did have magic, I’d make them feel it”
• PAUSE //
• All Pitches, No text, Actor Breath Motive
• Continue until all Actors are lined up for Curtain Call
 Sound Plot for Electronic Cues

Scene D escription Text Cu e Timing

After whispers from
8 Chimes, wind, echo and loon ‘Something to burn’ 33”

10 Whirling echo “A rats another of her imps” 22”

14 Monster Pricking “Finding the place on the body” 53”

14 Monster Pricking “Set this one aside” 53”

Maybe another Cue:

Scene 16- the Hanging of Joan and Ellen--- chimes through filter 10”