Set design
The actors onstage are mirrored throughout by black-and-white moving photographs of themselves on the screen behind, as if watched by a huge anti-theft monitor in a supermarket.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- John Barber, Daily Telegraph
- Date
- 1983
- Copyright
- © SBT
Set design
The auditorium becomes a bare space…The audience, sitting or standing, moves around and follows the action. The daring tactic is to make Rome's civil war as close and shocking as the latest TV pictures from Bosnia.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard
- Date
- 1993
- Copyright
- © SBT
Set design
…pomp and ceremony, with thunderous off-stage noises and stage effects that would do credit to a Nuremberg rally. Banners suddenly unfurl, red carpets roll from nowhere, and the black-leathered Romans recall Hitler's SS.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- John Barber, Daily Telegraph
- Date
- 1972
- Copyright
- © SBT
Set design
[The set] is Spartan, grey and totalitarian. An illuminated motto…dominates the stage in Orwellian fashion.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
- Date
- 2001
- Copyright
- © RSC 2001
Set design
Farrah's set consists of three monumental brick walls... with three spreading bloodstains on the back wall.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Irving Wardle, The Times
- Date
- 1987
- Copyright
- © SBT
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