The New Real (Original Soundtrack) is now available to stream on Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, and other streaming platforms.
Updated: Sep 28
The New Real (Original Soundtrack) is the album composed by Monika Dalach Sayers for David Edgar's epic political play The New Real, directed by Holly Race Roughan for the Royal Shakespeare Company in association with Headlong. Premiering in October 2024 at The Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon, the production explored a world reshaped by epoch-defining elections on both sides of the Atlantic. Blending electronic textures and atmospheric sound design, the soundtrack reflects the play's shifting political landscapes, human tensions, and emotional undercurrents. Designed to accompany the drama on stage, these compositions also stand alone as an immersive journey through uncertainty, change, underlying tensions, and the complexities of our contemporary world.
Listen now via Spotify:
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Listen to the two extra tracks commissioned by RSC, both available on SoundCloud:
🎶 Sunshine’s Call — the Eurovision song, composed to David Edgar’s lyrics.
🎶 Angel of the Nation — the national anthem of Straninka, the fictional Eastern European country where the events of the play take place.
