Dance Theatre piece Unbroken by Alexandra Wood.
Dir. Natalie Abrahami at the Gate Feb 2009

 

Praise for Unbroken design:

 

"Tom Scutt's design suggests a desolate no-man's land where the names of the lovers are scribbled like teenage graffiti on a pockmarked wall. We watch the action through fine netting that makes us voyeurs or scientists inspecting specimens." The Guardian

" An ace design by Tom Scutt places the brief encounters behind mesh, the characters scrawling their names like lonely graffiti on a stained and messed-up wall...Their bleached T-shirts and skinny jeans are pale as hope, but the kit stays on — the couplings are told by stylised dance. A woman is caught in a reluctant grapple with her ex, legs attempting a getaway, while speed daters bounce off the walls in jackknife flirtation." The Times

"Tom Scutt's ingenious design - a sewer-like concrete rectangle, shallow and wide - provides an interestingly unfeeling backdrop and, in combination with Lee Curran's lighting, manages to make something of the bland visual content. With a hazy gauze stretched across the stage's front, it feels a bit like a cinema screen up close or an aquarium tank containing examples of a species rather than individuals. " What's On Stage

 

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