Venue:
Yes
Director:
Dates:
14/06/2014 to 29/11/2015
18/01/2016 to 31/01/2016
Show type:
Designer's notes:
Shortlisted - Total Theatre Award 2014
Winner - Arches Brick Award 2014
Joint winner - TBC award at 2015 Off West End Awards
Production photographs
Press quotes
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
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... continue reading
Civilian Theatre
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... continue reading
Andres Ordorica, A Younger Theatre 19/06/2014
The gentle shift of the lighting subtly underscores the tone and eventually dominates at the coda.
Christopher Hong, The Public Reviews 31/10/2014
