Mark R. Bannister
Orchestral & Instrumental Composer
for Film, TV & Theatre

IN EXTREMIS
"There were only two people in the room that evening;
and both of us are now dead."

In Extremis, by Neil Barlett, is a short dramatic piece studying the encounter Oscar Wilde had with a palm reader one week before the well-publicised trial that would cost him his reputation, his liberty, his home, his family and eventually his life. The piece examines destiny, how one faces one’s own destiny, and questions whether there is any escape.

The production was directed by Rodney Figaro for the Richmond Shakespeare Society. The composition, aptly named In The Face Of Destiny, is a short musical vignette for clarinet and string quartet.

In The Face Of Destiny (MP3 - 1 min 13 secs - 0.58 Mb)

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