In March we built and painted the set for Macbeth designed by Katie Lias. it was a striking set with beautiful UV trees painted on the backing flats. Unfortunately, we haven’t managed to get a photographs of these, but here are a couple of the set as a whole under the working lights, then another of the production itself.
This year we are updating our Beauty and the Beast set and have replaced the old, very heavy portals with new ones. Continue Reading
Every year we build a slosh truck for the ever ambitious slosh scenes that are created for Cambridge Arts Theatre. This year was Aladdin and we built a steam press and a revolving washing machine as well as a soap dispenser that had a life of it’s own. Here are a couple of photographs of… Continue Reading
This year the Watermill Christmas production was Robin Hood designed by Frankie Bradshaw. We had fun creating life size trees in our workshops. This is the set on stage at The Watermill- Continue Reading
Our Sleeping Beauty portals received their long awaited patterning to their portals this year. This was always the intention when they were first built and painted at The Northcote in Exeter, but we think they must have run out of time! So from plain blue, they now have twinkle and twiddle! Continue Reading
We were asked to design and paint a new pantomime cloth for Newport that they could use as a generic cloth each year and that featured the new shopping centre, as they had sponsored the production. It was a strange request but Alex McPherson worked his magic and this is what we created. Continue Reading
We built and painted several sets for the Watermill Theatre. Here are a few examples:Sweet Charity designed by Diego PitarchBurke and Hare designed by Toots ButcherThe RivalsThe Old caravan we made dingey and disgusting for Jerusalem designed by Frankie BradshawA Midsummer Night’s Dream designed by Katie Lias Continue Reading
A lot has happened since my last post. I have been a bit remiss at updating the website over the last year, but hopefully this will change over the next few months. Nevertheless, the next few posts will offer a few highlights of our busy year last year. Our constant cycle of refurbishments gave our… Continue Reading
We have just completed a set for The Marlowe Society at Cambridge Arts Continue Reading
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