Habeas Corpus at Theatr Clwyd, North Wales

This photograph shows a fragment of the actual model (1:25) that I made for this project.
Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett, is a wonderful dark comedy which explores amongst other things, ideas about family and morality. It is set in a seaside town. My brief from the Director, Marina Caldarone, was to create some of the flavour of the seaside postcard, with a slightly surreal edge. I had seen Magritte's painting and chose to use it as my inspiration for the design.
The show had to tour, so it it made from simple painted cloths which can expand and contract, The planks of wood on the stage are infact made from painted carpet.


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