King Arthur
A semi opera by Henry Prucell and John Dryden
I had the pleasure of designing King Arthur for a small run of shows in the Samuel Beckett Theatre.
The show was a collaboration between two colleges renowned for their creative and artistic output, Riam(Royal Irish Academy of Music) and IADT(Dun Laoghaire Institute Of Art Design + Technology)
The setting was a post apocolyptic industrial world. Photo credit Mark Stedman
A gauze was draped in front of a large stucture of scaffolding to cast shadow and also disappear depending on the lighting. Photo credit Mark Stedman
Examaple of shadow and light on the gauze, Photo credit Mark Stedman
Scaffolding shadows frame the performers. Photo credit Mark Stedman
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The gauze being hung after aging
Tech rehersals and lighting tests
3D model of set
ISO view of 3D model without gauze
Tech Drawings for set and showing space designed to fit live orchestra along with performing space.
3D models and theatre layout shoowing the different areas of elevation.
Gauze and scaffold structure layout and design
A heat map to show the director and movement coach the areas that are free of obsticals for entry and exit to, from and through the space.
Rendering of an early design stage concept.
My first design concept, thrust platform and screen structure with hanging fabric which envoled from this into my final design.