Will Simpson

Theatre · Nottingham Playhouse · 2017

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A hundred days in Nottingham, between VE Day and VJ Day.

My role: Projection Design

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Stephen Lowe's play follows a group of Nottingham women through the hundred days between the end of the war in Europe and the end of the war in Japan. Matt Aston's 2017 production marked forty years since its premiere at Nottingham Playhouse.

The projection moves between factory floors, terraced streets, domestic rooms and maps of the city. A running day count places these ordinary lives against the events of 1945, while the forest and tree imagery brings a different scale to the stage.

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Credits
  • Writer
    Stephen Lowe
  • Director
  • Designer
  • Lighting designer
  • Projection designer
    Will Simpson
  • Composer and sound designer
  • Movement director
    Emma Annetts
  • Voice coach
    Kat Hicks
  • Company and stage manager
    Jane Eliot-Webb
  • Deputy stage manager
    Sharlene Harvard-Young
  • Assistant stage manager
    Kathryn Bainbridge-Wilson
  • Casting
    Lucy Jenkins CDG and Sooki McShane CDG
  • Cast
    Vicky McClure, Aisling Loftus, Chloe Harris, Elizabeth Rider, Esther Coles, Luke Gell, Sarah Beck Mather, Ian Kirkby, George Boden
  • Pauline
    Isobel Gilbert, Eve McLaughlin, Kaiya Withey
  • Production photography
    Robert Day