The original design used the architecture of the Tricycle, painting the existing pros gold and distressing the plaster walls to make it feel like we were in an empty theatre space in which the actors used the minimum of props to create the different locations. For the transfer to St Anns i had little architecture to respond to. The space is a black box warehouse, simple and strong ,but nothing in the space help to suggest a Nineteenth century theatre. So we have used scaffolding to draw the frame of the room, the footprint is exactly the same as the tricycle with scaffolding as walls. Without the clutter of the Tricycle auditorium structure it seems so much bigger and the imagery stronger as everything is more exposed. The actors dressing at the side and their growing relationship with the action at the centre of the stage as the piece goes on is now, visible to all the audience not just the best seats in the stalls.
Red Velvet Set at St Anns
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