Waiting for Stanley
Finger in the Pie
Touring 2012
set and costumes
The stagecraft is a joy. A string of cut-out paper children are slowly concertinaed out of view as they are evacuated from their homes. A clothes line full of washing is backlit to reveal a city in flames, bombs raining from the sky. There are numerous vintage suitcases strewn around the set and in these become accordions, typewriters, kitchen tables;
Waiting for Stanley. 2012. Natasha Tripney. Exeunt Magazine
The set is deceptively simple, a stack of suitcases in keeping with the starting point, a railway station, but nearly every one of those cases has a secret to reveal or contributes to the action in some way. Our imagination recreates the space as the interior of her home, her kitchen, the shelter... whilst the suitcases become kitchen tables, typewriters, a child’s bed...
Waiting for Stanley. 2012. Kate Saffin. Fringereview.co.uk
What appears to be the detritus of a rundown wartime railway station provides (quite literally) a box of tricks, as suitcases transform into radios, cribs, typewriters and many other props.
Waiting for Stanley.2011. Naylor. Westend.broadwayworld.com
Waiting for Stanley. 2011.
Ben Walters.
Time Out -Critics Choice
