Set: Es Devlin

Video: Finn Ross
Lighting: Tim Lutkin

Sound: Carolyn Downing

Costume: Christina Cunningham

 

Lucy Kirkwoods new play explores the changing relationship between China and America through the eyes of a photographer who took one of the iconic "Tank Man" photographs in Tiannimen Square in 1989.  

 

The set is a rotating white cube made up of multiple sliding panels creating doors, widows, openings, rooms, fish stall, appartments, strip clubs, newspaper offices and many other locations.  The video design is a series of photographs, as if taken by the shows protagonist, mapped on to this cube.  The images not olve move us from location to location but across continents and forwards and backwards in time.

 

 

Press:

"Es Devlin's superb design - an ingenious cube that revolves through time and space, drenched in Finn Ross's excellent projections of black-and-white contact sheets, each marked with a red editorial pen as a pertinent reminder that no photograph is unmediated." - The Indipendent

 

"Kirkwood deals with the ethics and practice of photojournalism; and this is dazzlingly reflected in Es Devlin's design, in which blown up, contact-sheet images are projected on to a revolving cube" - The Guardian *****

 

"superb use of photographic projections, often resembling the contact prints of news photographs. This is a stage show with the jump-cut fluidity of a film." The Telegraph

 

" The set, a little like an oversized camera, is a giant rotating cube with sliding apertures; on to its sides are projected video images, by Finn Ross, that conjure scenes from both Beijing and the Big Apple with filmic detail and elegance, along with scores of reportage-style pictures on contact sheets – the kind of photographs from which the world creates its narratives and its history." The Arts Desk

 

Kit:

1x Panasonic PT DX110Z

1x Catalyst Media Server

1x Grand MA 2 on PC

1x The Brillant Ingi Bekk Programming