Sweetening | Video design, co-set designer
Dir. Lucy Mann and Hattie De Santis
Wickham Theatre | Dec 2015
‘Inspired by the New York based avant-garde theatre company The Wooster Group, this original piece of multi-media performance explores contemporary culture’s fascination with and fetishisation of youth. Through a radical mash-up of Nabokov’s Lolita and Golding’s Lord of the Flies, integrating canned laughter with 1960s beach-party movies, Sweetening investigates society’s problematic and often hysterical representation of young people’s sexuality.
★★★★ ‘an artistic laboratory in which they use Popeye footage, dance and dazzling lights to deconstruct beauty, sexuality and the taboos associated with the two… Spectators are taken on a multifaceted journey – exploring nymphet sexuality by setting it against wild life documentaries…projections are scattered across the set, while the actors film each other, producing often uncomfortably extreme close ups to be shown on mobile TV screens. Thanks to the impressive synergy of those screens, the movable glaring lights and the actors’ bodies, Sweetening is as visually stunning as it is overcharged.’
-Mathis van der Berg, Intermission
Ted x University of Bristol 2016 | Set design in collaboration with the STA
Photo: James Chisholm Photography
Submarine | Set Design
Adapted and dir. Lucy Mann and Olivia Marcus from Richard Ayeoade’s film and Joe Thornton’s novel
The Alma Tavern Theatre | Jan 2015
Wardrobe Theatre | July 2015
The Space on Niddry Street | August 2015
★★★★★ ‘the contraption made of wooden pallets anchored at the back of the stage requires a review of its own! A boxed, turnable, rollable, foldable bed, table, closet and storage space that seamlessly flows into the scenes. Lydia Nowak, BroadwayBaby
★★★★★ Homage must also be given to the set designer, Mae-Li Evans, who created the inventive central stage piece; a wooden contraption that acts as a bed, coat hanger, bench, cabinet and prop holder. This contraption also manages to look great, while enabling effortless fluidity between scenes’ Ella Wilks-Harper, Worth it or not
★★★★★ A cleverly designed revolving wooden contraption which became everything from Oliver’s bed to his “favourite industrial estate” Hannah McLeod, Intermission
★★★★ An impressive set design by Mae-Li Evans which consists of very few props and contorting wooden pallets that change the scene and act as a bed, door and coat hanger.' Rachael Hickman, TV Bomb
★★★★ The set is simple yet highly flexible, and scene changes are never protracted and the pace keeps the story alive’ Alexander Wood, The Metropolist
★★★★ Popcorn Theatre’s “Submarine” is an undeniably enjoyable piece of theatre, whether you’ve even seen the original work or not – or even if you’re not a fan of indie movies.' Jacob Close, Edinburgh 49
★★★★★ ‘This production is sweet, playful and thoroughly entertaining…the use of performance space is creative and inventive. A central wooden structure created by set designer Mae Li-Evans folds, collapses and spins into a number of shapes, transforming the space from Oliver’s bedroom to a classroom and to an industrial estate.' Joy Molan, Epigram
★★★★ - Three Weeks Edinburgh
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