Award winning Design
It is not often that I read a script and am gripped and surprised by the unfolding narrative but Al Blyth's play at Hampstead Theatre is a real page turner. The main challenge for the design was how to allow the story of GCHQ surveillance and the … [Read more...]
This was written last year : In mid rehearsal for Steff Smith's radical version of Doll's house, set in three periods at once,1918,1968 and 2018 with three actresses playing Nora. Collaborating with Director Elizabeth Freestone, Movement … [Read more...]
Coming back to write about this one as i haven't had time this year to keep up. This production is now at the Barbican and will go out on tour in the new year. Another collaboration with Erica Whyman looking at this play afresh examining the … [Read more...]
Playing catch up at the moment after a week with 4 openings in , this has been a very busy autumn full of a fantastic variety of projects! So White Teeth has been in gestation for many years now with Stephen Sharkey and Indhu Rubasingham working in … [Read more...]
Michael Boyd and I have returned to this epic text in his specially adapted version. We created a production for TFANA in Brooklyn in 2014 and have now moved on to the Swan in Stratford. As always when working with Michael the production develops and … [Read more...]
Beyond the Deepening Shadow Back in the moat of the Tower of London and faced with the challenge from Deborah Shaw of how to mark the end of the centenary year of the end of the first world war. I have been on an extraordinary journey with … [Read more...]
It's back at Sadlers Wells and then on tour through Germany. The production began life in Cuba before it opened in 2016 in Theatre du Chatelet Paris. Here are some great pictures by Deborah Jaffe.co.uk … [Read more...]
Just recovering from the emotional journey of putting on this wonderful show. I know it is normal to get involved in one's work, but something about the open heartedness of Sam Kenyon's words and music and the way Erica Whyman worked with the … [Read more...]
After the whirling challenge of the multi locational Great Wave at the NT it was refreshing to take on the singular challenge of creating the Tyrone household for O'Neill's great play at the Citizens. The clue is in the title , a long journey through … [Read more...]
This has been an epic tale, in a smallish space, that has pushed my ethos of creating simple and evocative spaces to the limit. Francis Turnly's play was three years in development and always multi locational, as we worked on it with director … [Read more...]
