I saw a recording at the IMAX of Danny Boyles Frankenstein- closest i could get to seeing the sell out play.
I was fascinated by the set design, which was really really good. The set was designed by Mark Tildesley, lighting designer Bruno Poet.
This image is of large machinery with many people on it. It moved via a track which ran through the centre of the revolving stage and then reversed back out again. The stage did many different movements, including sinking down to portray a riverside.
The other sets included a material like tent which was a house, where you could see the actors going in and out in shadow and at the windows. A flat set with walls and windows to represent a grand house in Germany. I wish i could find photos for all of the scenes, they truly were pieces of art in themselves.
The Stage revolved and in this picture you can see a circular disc. This represented the 'womb' in which the actor playing Frankenstein was 'born' out of. It was a brilliant idea and was really effective on stage as a prop and a piece of set. The actor could interact with the 'skin like' surface which stretched over the circular frame.
The sets were fairly simple in design but were so fantastic. The ceiling was a dense strip of different lightbulbs which lit up at certain points of the play and really added to the performance
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