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Noises Off
BY Michael Frayn
Stephen Joseph Theatre
Director Paul Robinson
Lighting Designer Jane Lalljee
Production Photographs ©Tony bartholomew
Set Transformation model.
Digital set design models created using Blender 3D​
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Kevin Jenkins's design is wondrous, evoking period and place marvellously and facilitating farcical interplay and confusions at rapid pace. It's worth sticking around during the two intervals just to witness the turnaround of this ingenious design—kudos to the real-life backstage crew. British Theatre Guide
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The technical triumph of designer Kevin Jenkins is that he doesn’t simply flip some doors around to represent the onstage set and the backstage area; instead, he reimagines the reverse as if it were the backstage of an in-the-round theatre, such as the Stephen Joseph. This means that entire door frames that fill the theatre’s vomitoria (the tunnel entrances to the stage between the seating) are swapped around between the acts. The geographical detail is mindbending and really places “the theatre” as a central character in this production. The Recs
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