Chris Davey
Lighting Designer
Overview
For New Adventures:
THE CAR MAN
LORD OF THE FLIES
Other work:
Recent Designs
Peer Gynt - National Theatre of Scotland/Dundee Rep
The Pianist - Manchester International Festival
Three Thousand Troubled Threads - Edinburgh International Festival
Royal Shakespeare Company
Twelfth Night, Pericles, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, Night of the Soul, Alice in Wonderland, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night`s Dream, Everyman (both also in New York), A Month in the Country, Troilus and Cressida, The Comedy of Errors (world tour),Mysteria, Easter.
Royal National Theatre
The Seagull, Pillars of the Community, Dream Play, Iphigenia at Aulis, War and Peace (co production Shared Experience), The Colour of Justice (co production Tricycle), Baby Doll (originally at Birmingham Rep).
Around the Country
Salisbury Playhouse - Alphabetical Order, Shadowlands, Yellowman
Bristol Old Vic - Beasts and Beauties, The Odyssey
Chichester Festival - My One and Only, Romeo and Juliet
West Yorkshire Playhouse - Blues in the Night, Twelfth Night, The Wizard of Oz, Dangerous Corner, Johnson Over Jordon, Broken Glass, The Comedy of Errors, Half a Sixpence Royal Exchange Manchester - A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Way of the World, A Woman of No Importance, Nude with Violin, The Illusion
Sheffield Theatres - How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found, Don't Look Now, Guys and Dolls
Abbey Theatre, Dublin - Closer
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh - Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Glass Menagerie, The Merchant of Venice,If Only..., Art, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Playboy of the Western World, Lavender Blue, Beauty and the Beast, The Deep Blue Sea, Clay Bull
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh - Family, Passing Places, Greta
Gothemburg - Anna Karenina
Oxford Stage Co - The Quare Fellow, The Three Sisters
Commercial National Tours
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Nica Burns
The French Lieutenant's Woman - Produced by Nick Brooke Productions and Rachel Tackley
Three Tall Women - Produced by Oxford Playhouse
The Deep Blue Sea - Produced by Bath Theatre Royal Productions
The Taming of the Shrew - Produced by Thelma Holt
The Vagina Monologues - Produced by Mark Goucher
Honk! - Produced by Kenny Wax
West End
Matthew Bourne's The Car Man - Sadler's Wells, Old Vic - (New Adventures) Rattle of a Simple Man - Comedy After Mrs Rochester - Duke of Yorks My One and Only - Piccadilly Dangerous Corner - Garrick, The Car Man - Sadler's Wells, Old Vic - New Adventures Baby Doll - Albery Mill on the Floss, Jane Eyre - New Ambassadors (Shared Experience) The Colour of Justice - Victoria Palace In a Little World of Our Own, Endgame - Donmar Warehouse Shining Souls - Old Vic Three Sisters - Whitehall
London Theatre
Royal Court - Catch,The Sugar Syndrome, Crazyblackmuthafuckinself, The Force of Change Hampstead Theatre - Clever Dick, Yellowman, Sunday Father, Out In the Open, Keepers Young vic - Blood Wedding, Grimm Tales Lyric Hammersmith - Watership Down, Don't Look Now, The Odyssey, The Magic Carpet, Cause Celebre, Then Again... Bridewell - Of Thee I Sing, Sweeney Todd
His designs for Shared Experience Theatre have been seen all over the World - Bronte, Madame Bovary, After Mrs Rochester, A Passage to India, Mill On the Floss, Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre, The Tempest, War and Peace, Desire Under the Elms, The Danube.
Dance
Matthew Bourne's The Car Man - New Adventures, (National & International tours) 21 - Rambert Dance Company Jekyll and Hyde - Northern Ballet Theatre Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company
Opera
Aida - Houston Grand Opera The Magic Flute - WNO Jephtha WNO/ENO The Magic Flute, The Gambler, Falstaff, La Traviata, Anything Goes, The Turn of the Screw, La Boheme, Iolanthe, Le Roi Malgre Lui, South Pacific, Don Giovanni, Maria Stuarda, Cosi Fan Tutti, Capuleti y Montecchi, Fortunioi - Grange Park Opera The Rake's Progress - Aldeburgh Festival Bluebeard - Bregenz / St Polten The Picture of Dorian Grey - Opera de Monte Carlo.
Credits
New Adventures
- The Car Man
- Lord of the Flies