the turn of the screw
Set + Costume Designer | Bury Court Opera, March 2019 | By Benjamin Britten, Conductor Paul Wingfield, Director Ella Marchment, Lighting Designer Ben Pickersgill + Photographer Robert Workman
Holly Pigott's imaginative setting for Ella Marchment's production gave us everything the opera needed despite the limited facilities of the Bury Court Opera stage. The big advantage was the dark, claustrophobic nature of the essential space, and by using the stepped stage, and various traps we had a series of evocative settings, emphasised by Ben Pickersgill's dramatic lighting, all darkness and light, full of hidden corners and wonderfully theatrical / **** Planet Hugill
https://www.musicomh.com/classical/reviews-classical/the-turn-of-the-screw-bury-court-opera-bentley / **** Music OMH
