Music, Text & Design
NOW IS THE TIME
song from The March by Kathleen Clark
song concept by Kathleen Clark
music & lyrics by Robert Lawson (ASCAP)
all works © 2018
Commissioned by Invisible Theater, Tucson AZ
Susan Claassen, Managing Artistic Director
Lyric sheet
Lead sheet
Lyrics & Chords
The March by Kathleen Clark
Commissioned to commemorate the one year anniversary of the Women's March
A bus load of friends and strangers set out on January 21, 2017 for the Women's March on Washington, and even though their final destination is not what they expected, their voices are heard loud and clear and their lives are changed forever.
Additional Performance
Sun. 1/21 BCA, Boston -- 5:pm
Directed by Jess Viator : Theater@First
Other Music by Lawson
Cautionary Tale
a Cabaret Junk Opera in 3 Acts
concept, text, music, lyrics, design by Lawson
Premiere directed by Lawson
Feature Film
Screenplay by Lawson & Jonathan Glatzer
Directed by Glatzer
Song under end credits (with Glatzer and Duff)
Any Other Day - recorded by Hilary Duff
Andre Recke, producer for Amherst Records
a WW1 soldier's metaphysical tale of loss and reclamation
set in 1919 and presented by the Louche Lounge
and the Microscopic Opera House
in the Afterlife Hotel
Cautionary Tale Medley Script/Score 6.21.18
The Good Soldier : film for performance
of Cautionary Tale created from pre-existent footage
Echo Chamber
script, music, design and direction by Lawson
Samples of Underscoring
Inside a laboratory in the future, a series of experiments are carried out on a massive, revolving stone as two scientists go through the alphabet in an attempt to understand humanity. However, as they soon find out, the ‘Room’ itself is really in charge of things, and when they get to the word 'Violence', the Room gets intrigued and won’t let things move on. A series of trans-time events then occur that both illuminate and obscure the human propensity for savagery, both intimate and global. In the midst of this exploration, a new character appears : the X-Ray Technician (actually a manifestation of the room itself). The machine she brings is able to see inside a person’s head, to their dreams and fantasies, and when this happens, the scientists become the subjects, with calamitous results.
Echo Chamber is inspired by the events that occurred
on the Norwegian island of Utøya in 2011