Lap Kelpie, 2024
Theatreworks
Writer - Adam Fawcett
Director - Justing Nott
Costume Design - Martelle Hunt
Lighting Design - Sidney Younger
Sound Design - Tom Backhaus
Vision Design - Aron Murray
Press
"Macabre flourishes and weird plot points are well-supported by confident design... Lighting Designer Sidney Younger and Set Designer Harry Gills have often worked together, but nowhere else have their designs complemented each other so well." - Guy Webster, Australian Arts Review
Jerica’s home is a typical slice of Aussie suburbia: beaded curtains overhanging doorways, plastic sun lounges on black astro-turf, and tens of vintage lamps that surge and flicker to bring a Gothic air to moments of high drama." - Guy Webster, Australian Arts Review
"Harry Gill has constructed a highly effective domestic stage with a connecting living room, kitchen and dining room and a backyard that feels lived in and used. Along with Sidney Younger's lighting design, we are given a dose of familiarity with a sprinkling of gloom and anxiety into the space with the lampshade lighting. The empty void that surrounds the home... further play with the darkness that is enveloping the Coleman household." - Myron May, My Melbourne Arts
"Effort has also been made to craft the quintessential Australian home on the stage, with an absurd number of vintage lamps... Intensifying the clutter and claustrophobia and imbuing the house with a personality of its own." - Ninna Culley, Limelight Magazine
"The sprawling set (the work of Harry Gill) – the family home writ large, with its surfeit of lamps – is evocative." Alex First
Harry Gill’s set design is evocative and effective at representing the Coleman’s fading residence. The lamps growing out of the foundations of the house like mushrooms are a highlight, particularly in their skilful integration with the rest of Sidney Younger’s moody and theatrical lighting design." - Ryan Hamilton
photo by Pia Johnson
photo by Pia Johnson
photo by Pia Johnson
photo by Pia Johnson
photo by Pia Johnson
photo by Pia Johnson
