Openings November 2018 – January 2019

This Autumn and Winter, Performing Arts clients will be opening a huge variety of shows. Please click through each production name to find out more, or choose the client’s name to view their page.

November sees many openings for our clients, including Hamlet for Stadtische Theater Chemnitz, which will be lit by Davy Cunningham, on the 3rd. The 6^th sees two openings, including new client Chuma Emembolu’s lighting design for As You Like It for Ye Olde Rose and Crown, and The Play That Goes Wrong, lit by Ric Mountjoy, will open in South Korea. Charles Edwards’ set designs will be revived for Katia Kabanova for Fundacio del Gran Teatre del Liecu in Barcelona on the 8^th.

Other revivals include La Bayadere on November 1st, featuring John B Read’s lighting designs at the Royal Opera House as a part of their 2018/19 Season, which also be reviving John’s designs for Symphony in C on the 20^th, as well as Winter Dreams and Les Patineurs on 18^th December.

Jon Clark lights two shows of the Pinter at the Pinter season on the 15^th and 16^th, while his lighting designs for The Jungle will transfer to St Ann’s, New York on the 8^th December.

Bullet Tongue by Big House will open in Islington on the 16^th, lit by Zia Bergin-Holly, and has been extended due to popular demand. Zia will also light Pravda for Arts Educational Schools London, which opens on the 1^st December.

Zoe Spurr lights The Maids at Manchester HOME, which opens on the 21^st November, as well as lighting The Cat In The Hat for The Curve in Leicester, which opens on the 14^th December. In the new year, Zoe will be lighting a production of Anthropocene for Scottish Opera, on the 24^th January. Other productions lit by Zoe continue to tour, including Abigail’s Party opening in Les Theatres de la Ville de Luxembourg on November 27^th, and Frantic Assembly’s The Unreturning – which is currently touring nationally.

The year will wrap up with Adriana Lecouvrer opening at the Metropolitan Opera on the 31^st December, featuring Andrew George’s original choreography, Brigitte Reiffenstuel’s costumes, and Charles Edwards’ set design.

January will also see Rosenbaum’s Rescue open at Park Theatre on the 15^th, lit by Emma Chapman.