set design

The Boy Who Left Home
by Michael Wynne
For the Actors’ Touring Company; Lyric Hammersmith, London and touring
21 September - 25 November 2000

team
director: Nick Philippou
set designer: Pippa Nissen
lighting designer: Nigel Edwards
sound designer: Rich Walsh
costumes designer: Tania Spooner

description

The fairy tale world of the boy is translated into a room that feels both inside and outside. A large curved wall is wallpapered with screen-printed images of trees, that provides the backdrops to some of the scenes; and a bedroom door in the wall makes the space become his bedroom. A framed house structure - gauze stretched over a black frame - is like a child’s drawing of a house, which as it moves around the stage becomes the ever present search for home. This is used as a backdrop for photographic slides of a window or forest depending on the scene.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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