Shakespeare Unplugged

Photo Nick Spratling

Here is a wonderful collage of photos from the Production Photographer Nick Spratling, taken over the course of the Shakespeare Unplugged Festival at The Egg Theatre, Bath. I designed 'The Winter's Tale' for the festival, production shots to follow.

Set Design: The Egg; once the lights come on...

Behing the hustle and bustle of production week on stage, is a secret world in half light that precious few of us get to experience. 

Once the set was built, lighting designer Anna Barrett created the hot, dusty Spanish villa that houses our characters. This is the side of the set you never get to see, but it had a magic all of its own with the beautiful bare brick wall of The Egg bouncing off the amber glow. 

 

Set Design: The Egg, The fit up for The House of Bernarda Alba

I drew this set sketch back in February of this year. The set installation last week was a bit epic so I thought it deserved it's own documentation. Gemma Brooks masterminded the scaffolding structure that was then to be clad in beautiful knotty wood to create our rustic spanish villa.

Scaffolding is erected and the balcony floor is laid...

...flats and doors installed...

...venetian blinds installed...

...Carpet goes down...

...props and furniture set...

...set dressing and lighting...

Once our set was up and ready to go, the cast arrived and began to rehearse in the space. Paul Blakemore took some stunning production shots which are a few posts down on the blog.

Set Design: The House of Bernarda Alba Production Shots by Paul Blakemore

 

Here are just a handful of the brilliant production photos taken by Paul Blakemore of the production of The House of Bernarda Alba at The Egg Theatre, at Bath Theatre Royal. It was directed by Heidi Vaughan and I designed set and costume. I will be divulging behind the scenes shots and a step by step visual of the ginormous set being erected over the next week on the blog.

To see more production photos, click on my Portfolio link.