Kate Unwin To Kill A
Mockingbird
October 2004
Venue:
Leicester Haymarket Theatre
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By Harper Lee Directed by Paul Kerryson Lighting Design by James Farncombe
To Kill A
Mockingbird was playing
in rep with Master Harold and the Boys so both sets used the same raked
stage platform which jutted into the audience. My brief was to make huge
realistic trees and look at using picket fencing in a realistic and abstract
way. The trees were covered in leaves but their trunks were made up of planks.
Odd-shaped porches at different heights represented different characters houses
and cutout frames clad in planks of wood were the Finch house and Boo Radley’s
house. Scout’s tyre hung downstage on the raked platform and other tyres hung
upstage at different heights hanging on rope as hangman’s nooses. With the aid
of the lighting the set could look like a children’s playground one moment and
a frightening place the next.