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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