The Gentle Giant

I've just got my hands on these photographs from January of this year, of The Gentle Giant. A PMLD show by Bamboozle, its a really special one, telling the story of the lonely giant who lives on his own on an island, and ends up saving the whole village. The original story was written by Micheal Morpurgo.

These photographs were taken by Martin Neeves.

The Great Gatsby

Here is another post from the archives, looking back to last summer, and 'The Great Gatsby' with YMT. These wonderful pictures were taken by Stuart Harrison.

COAL

So last week, Nottingham Playhouse hosted the end of the Spring '17 COAL tour. Our last troupe of Pit Women to costume arrived, and this time there were 6! It was a little more of a challenge, but we had 2 really wonderful shows to celebrate the end of the tour. They really did an amazing job.

I also found my best charity shop buy of 2017... this commemorative plate, for our french miner who has just left the company, who is from Saint-Etienne of all places...!

COAL returns to Scotland this autumn, so keep your eyes peeled for more tour dates.

The Tales of Birbal

Here are a few pictures that I took from the Dress Rehearsal of 'The Tales of Birbal' by Mashi Theatre. I worked as assistant designer,to Sue Pyecroft, looking after the costumes, and helping realise the props and puppets. It really was such a good looking show to be making, I just wanted to take everything home with me. Especially Sue's woderful crow puppets, made from bin bags!

On The Shoulders Of Giants

 

 

 Here are a few snaps from this truly spectacular event, in Oldham last autumn to celebrate the grand re-opening of Oldham Town Hall. 'On The Shoulders Of Giants' was directed and produced by Oldham Theatre Workshop, a fantastic theatre company for young people. The show was a real team effort, but the driving force behind the show was Sarah Nelson, the writer and director, and James Atherton, the composer the and director of OTW. The spectacular aerial work was by the amazing Upswing company, and Handmade Parade designed and made the wonderful, Oldham Giant puppet.

With help from my amazing assistant Irene Jade, I designed the props and costumes for the opening show, which really was a sight to behold! A rather crazy, but amazingly fun project to be a part of!

Wind in the Willows

Another post from the archives... and a few thousand willow leaves, for 'Wind In The Willows', which after a tour last autumn, will be opening at the London Palladium this coming June.

I worked with a couple of others, stringing on the thousands of leaves onto the chains, which form 3 sweepinglines of weeping willow curtains. Really beautiful, and a very meditative task.

The Colour of Me, Wriggle Dance

Its a rather late blog post, but I thought I would share a bit of the work I did last September, assisitng Sue Pyecroft, on 'The Colour Of Me', an interactive dance piece for children by Wriggle Dance.

There was lots of projection within the show, and Sue had created a wonderful white canopy for the projections to appear on. All of the set and costumes were white, and then the main props were different colours of the rainbow... I made a giant leaf, and a costume!

Have a watch of the wonderful trailer here: