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Derailed Trailer
New devised show by Little Soldier Productions, designed by Alison Neighbour, premieres at HOME in Manchester this week. Watch the trailer from last week's scratch performance at the Battersea Arts...
Little Red Rave Reviews
Little Red Rave Reviews are in! Noisemaker Productions and Dundee Rep's new musical, LITTLE RED AND THE WOLF, opened in fine style last week. The brand new show was created by writer-director Scott Gilmour and composer Claire McKenzie, and designed by Richard Evans....
Remembering Becs Andrews
It is with immense sadness and a deep sense of shock that we have to announce that designer Becs Andrews, our friend and colleague, passed away on 6th January 2016. Becs made a profound impact with the work she made, something that has been widely commented upon as...
The Eye of a Scenographer
2015 is the year of the scenographer... As winner of an international artists' residency with INSP Lab in Denmark, and a fellowship to attend the colossal theatre maker/designer convention PQ15 in Prague, designing three shows and in development for a fourth, Alison...
Rajha Shakiry to represent UK at V&A
Rajha Shakiry's design work has been selected to represent the best of UK scenography at the V&A this summer. Images and sound from Shakiry's design for internationally acclaimed play I Stand Corrected (Mojisola Adebayo), will be shown alongside design work also...
Belle and Sebastian wear Katharine Heath
Belle and Sebastian wear clothes designed by Katharine Heath on the cover of their new album Girls in Peacetime want to Dance, which is released officially today. Footage from the cover shoot, throughout which the band wore Katharine Heath's designs, was used in the...
Time to Make Believe 14-31 Jan 2015
The UK's biggest Design for Performance exhibition has begun. Produced by the Society of British Theatre Designers (SBTD) in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum and Nottingham Trent University, Make Believe showcases the work of more than 140 UK...
A Little Shop of Memory
Alison Neighbour's theatre company, Bread & Goose, is preparing to expand their Memory Store - a library of memories 'donated' by people who wish to share them. Designed by Alison in the style of an old-fashioned mobile shop, with nooks and crannies for many a...
Fun Palace Fun / 4-5 October 2014
This weekend, the work of Katharine Heath and Ian Teague will be on show in some of London's first Fun Palaces a UK-wide engagement project to get communities making things together. Hundreds of Fun Palaces across the UK will be holding participation events, and will...
Heritage Heroism award for A CRACK IN TIME
A Crack in Time, the latest project-in-progress by Nettie Scriven's company Dragon Breath Theatre, has been awarded the Nottinghamshire Heritage Inspiration Award for Best Special Project 2014. The project had its first experimental outings in 2013 at the Papplewick...