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Romeo and Juliet at Cambridge Arts Theatre designed by Neil Irish
We have just completed a set for The Marlowe Society at Cambridge Arts Continue Reading
Check out our new transformation throne for Beauty and the Beast
This will be featured in The Corn Exchange, Newbury’s Christmas pantomime this year. The Beast changes from his grotesque persona into the Prince in a puff of smoke and some theatrical magic! Continue Reading
The Borrowers at The Watermill Theatre deisgned by Toots Butcher
We’ve also been busy building and painting the Christmas production for The Watermill Theatre. We had great fun creating giant building blocks and other toys as well as reproducing the intricate painting of Toot’s set design. Thanks as always to Milly Dagnell for all her hard work painting. Continue Reading
Pantomime preparations in full swing!
Since our summer break we have hit the ground running with preparations for several of our pantomimes. We’ve made new portals for our Aladdin set, replacing the originals with light-weight canvas legs and soft borders but staying absolutely faithful to Mark Hinton’s marvellous designs. We’ve also created some Mother Goose scenes to be used at… Continue Reading
A Little Night Music designed by David Woodhead at the Watermill Theatre
We have completed our fifth set for the Watermill Theatre in Bagnor, Berkshire this year. It was quite a challenge to recreate David Woodhead’s beautiful reflective finish on his set design. We achieved this after a little experimenting using a version of silver leaf over an emulsion primed base then adding French enamel varnish to… Continue Reading
The Miller’s Child for The Watermill, Bagnor, Berkshire
DSH have just this week supplied the set for this inspirational production involving a unique collaboration between primary schools in the area. https://www.watermill.org.uk/the_millers_child#home-ttab Continue Reading
Completed portals for The Corn Exchange, Newbury’s production of “Beauty and the Beast”
Between set builds we have squeezed in the painting of the three portals for Beauty and the Beast. Here is a picture of the two halves of portal 1 – the portals are too large to fit all four component parts together in our workshop. Continue Reading
“Into The Woods” for Downe House School
Back in June we supplied scenery for Downe House School’s production of Into the Woods. We would have liked some production photographs but unfortunately these were unforthcoming, so here are some pictures from our workshop. The main design concept was for some raised rostra fronted by a rock face, with a cave-like centre stage entrance.… Continue Reading
House and Garden at The Watermill, Bagnor, Berkshire
On Sunday 21st May we put the set for House and Garden designed by Neil Irish into the Watermill Theatre near Newbury. This is an Alan Ayckbourn play that is staged both in the auditorium and also in the beautiful gardens of the theatre. Luckily the weather was lovely and sunny. These images were… Continue Reading
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