This is How We Die
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Shortlisted - Total Theatre Award 2014
Winner - Arches Brick Award 2014
Joint winner - TBC award at 2015 Off West End Awards
What I hadn’t noticed before in the show was how masterful Sherry Coenen’s lighting design is even before the spectacular ending – imperceptibly connecting us to Bailey then isolating him again. It matches the almost trance-like effect of the text itself
Lilith Wozniak, Exeunt Magazine 09/05/2018
The gentle shift of the lighting subtly underscores the tone and eventually dominates at the coda.
Christopher Hong, The Public Reviews 31/10/2014
The subliminal lighting design of Sherry Coenen adds to the spirituality of the last fifteen minutes of the production. Coenen lights the stage in a mixture of elements of a great rock concert and instances of higher ascension, like celestial gates opening upon death. Fading in and out with barely a glimmer of the musicians, painting them as haunting angels of death, Coenen elevates the performance.
Andres Ordorica, A Younger Theatre 19/06/2014
At the end of Christopher Brett Bailey’s performance of This is how we die the audience are subjected to – and it is a case of being subjected to rather than being passive observers of – a sonic assault that is best imagined as the sound of an imploding, decaying universe and the tentative hope that something new and beautiful can rise from the fading flickering light. The stage lights turn their impassive bulbs on the audience, bathing the observers in a harsh, unforgiving light whilst ear-shattering, fuzzy rhythms rise and fall, roll and repeat, looping and overlaying motifs amongst discordant sounds.
Civilian Theatre
Winner - Arches Brick Award 2014
Joint winner - TBC award at 2015 Off West End Awards
What I hadn’t noticed before in the show was how masterful Sherry Coenen’s lighting design is even before the spectacular ending – imperceptibly connecting us to Bailey then isolating him again. It matches the almost trance-like effect of the text itself
Lilith Wozniak, Exeunt Magazine 09/05/2018
The gentle shift of the lighting subtly underscores the tone and eventually dominates at the coda.
Christopher Hong, The Public Reviews 31/10/2014
The subliminal lighting design of Sherry Coenen adds to the spirituality of the last fifteen minutes of the production. Coenen lights the stage in a mixture of elements of a great rock concert and instances of higher ascension, like celestial gates opening upon death. Fading in and out with barely a glimmer of the musicians, painting them as haunting angels of death, Coenen elevates the performance.
Andres Ordorica, A Younger Theatre 19/06/2014
At the end of Christopher Brett Bailey’s performance of This is how we die the audience are subjected to – and it is a case of being subjected to rather than being passive observers of – a sonic assault that is best imagined as the sound of an imploding, decaying universe and the tentative hope that something new and beautiful can rise from the fading flickering light. The stage lights turn their impassive bulbs on the audience, bathing the observers in a harsh, unforgiving light whilst ear-shattering, fuzzy rhythms rise and fall, roll and repeat, looping and overlaying motifs amongst discordant sounds.
Civilian Theatre