site-specific productions in depth

a gallery of images spotlighting some site-specific and non-theatre venue productions A Plan to BuildHamletGrimm TalesBonded click on a show to jump to their area

A Plan to Build
Production Manager, Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company at Bicester Garrison,
April-July 2001

A visit to an eccentric firm of architects doesn't quite go to plan. They are there to discuss what to do with Oxter Field, a disused piece of land in town. The children are led into a lecture theatre, but during the presentation the 'Voices of the Land' take over the computer, the screen disappears, and they are led into another world...
They emerge into a gallery of bizarre buildings, chronicling the history of housing.  There is a homeless girl desperatedly looking for somewhere to live. And suddenly, the exhibits come to life!
	A bricklayer calls to the children to help him with his work. They climb a ramp to a scaffolding structure, within which a variety of worlds are glimpsed: the production line, the mechanic, the boardroom, the secretary and, of course, the builder.
They travel on through a corridor of texture, sound and light, and emerge into a pure white world, an empty field where people relax and play, with a rather unusual plant at its centre	This world of leisure is shattered by the din of a traffic jam, where irate motorists pick on someone they think works for the council, but in fact just want to sing the praises of Happy Harry's Multi-Storey Car Park. To answer tehir concerns, the motorists and the kids are invited back into the lecture theatre to discuss the fate of the field...
Creative Team: Directed by Jeremy James and Ben Eccles  Designed by Nancy Surman	photographs courtesy of Nadine White  Lighting by Richard G Jones  Music composed by Nick Bicat

Hamlet
Technical / Stage Manager, Creation Theatre at BMWGroup Plant Oxford,
January - March 2001
 

Cluadius and Gertrude's bright and sumptuous wedding opens the production, before the audience are led into the much darker, ominous surroundings of the panel store at the BMW plant, where the  foreboding Elsinore, a  fast-paced industrial world, has been created from structures around the plant

Creative Team: Directed by Zoe Seaton Set Designed by Andy Seaton	photographs courtesy of Andy Seaton  Lighting by Ashley Bale Costume Designed by Alison Taylor

Technical Stage Manager, Salisbury Playhouse for Wiltshire County Youth Theatre , May 2000
	An open-air show, the culmination of a month-long residential youth-theatre course in Wiltshire. After opening in Devizes, the entire production was moved to play in the grounds of Salisbury Cathedral.
Creative Team: Directed by Kirstie Davis Designed by Alex Eales	Associate Director  Caroline Leslie Choreographed by  Chris Presley

Bonded
Stage Manager, Birmingham Rep. Community Tour, February - March 1997

A community tour of the West Midlands, playing a variety of school halls, sport centres and studio spaces.