A perfect venue for this opera based on Hogarth's famed series of paintings. I am collaborating again with Selina Cadell and the team behind Love for Love at the RSC so just working on the stage design with costumes by Rosalind Ebbutt. This is the … [Read more...]

This has been a real departure for me working for with Shobana Jeyasingh. Lots of thoughts about it in this link .   … [Read more...]

A bit late writing about this production which has been and gone, but wanted to share my thoughts.The production was my second at Garsington with Michael Boyd after last year's Eugene Onegin.  Debussy's symbolist masterpiece demands a … [Read more...]

This production directed by Eleanor Rhodes,is the last programmed by Emma Rice in her tenure as Artistic Director and as such will be the last in a while to use the full range of emotional and atmospheric possibilities available with electric theatre … [Read more...]

We are nearing the end of another frantic year with the poppies sculptures, having completed 5 of the 6 installations planned for this year.There has been a great variety of locations and stories. The Wave looked magnificent at the end of … [Read more...]

A joyous collaboration with Dot theatre from Istanbul and director Murat Dultaban with the Lyceum theatre for the Edinburgh International Festival. In keeping with the absurdist nature of the piece, Murat encouraged me to push the design to an almost … [Read more...]

I never imagined I would end up doing a Noel Coward play, I guess my natural style isn't what directors normally think of when contemplating a Coward piece! But thankfully Dominic Hill , with whom I normally collaborate on more miserable fare such as … [Read more...]

A bit late in the day writing about this production in my slightly mental year, but this was the second in the double bill at Northern Stage celebrating strong female protagonists. After Frankenstein, also adapted by Selma Dimitrijevic, Hedda was an … [Read more...]

A challenge to work on a new version of this Mary Shelly classic adapted by Selma Dimitrijevic , especially when it is paired with a reworking of Hedda Gabler. Northern Stage, under the direction of Lorne Campbell have asked me to create a single … [Read more...]

http://bbc.in/2fFVof0 only a month left to catch this recording of last years Garsington success … [Read more...]