23.5 Hours
WRITER: Carey Crim
COMPANY: Blue Touch Paper Productions
DIRECTOR: Katharine Farmer
SET & COSTUME DESIGNER: Carla Goodman
SOUND DESIGNER: Julian Starr
VENUE: Park Theatre 200, London
OPENING DATE: 9th September 2024
PHOTOGRAPHER: Charles Flint
"Nimble lighting by Jamie Platt generates a fuzzy, ultraviolet glow that paints the exposed brickwork in roiling purple tones and turns metalwork vividly orange. Pale beams shine down through a lazily whirling ceiling fan, sending unsettling shadows crawling around, while precisely aimed spotlights snap on to Tom and Leigh’s shocked faces during particularly damaging revelations, freezing them in moments of panic as their worlds implode."
David Fargnoli - The Stage - 10/09/2024
"A wonderful, subtle collaboration comes from lighting and set designers Jamie Platt and Carla Goodman. A ceiling fan continually rotates above the stage, with Platt’s lighting angled just so to have it’s shadow whipping across the front of the stage – perhaps this is an imagined clock, ticking away the time until things fall apart, or a symbol of the desperate attempt to create some sense of constancy in their lives ...while the lighting pulls in on Leigh in key moments, reinforcing the sense of dread and entrapment, reminding us just how small and how fenced-in those thirty minutes of doubt leave her feeling."
Sam Waite - All That Dazzles - 10/09/2024
"Jamie Platt’s lighting builds intimacy well, with blue washes and soft spots. Dwan, alone and smoking a stolen spliff as she sits broken on the kitchen floor, is a moment of such visual catharsis."
Gabriel Wilding - Hackney Citizen - 20/09/2024
"Scenes transition swiftly through the cast’s movement and Jamie Platt’s control of light. While many performances may prefer a more expressionistic, Brechtian style of slow-motion choreography, this performance remains realistic. It is the change of light – from natural light to neon light tubes on the back wall – that indicates characters’ internal turmoil."
Ke Meng - Theatre Weekly - 10/09/2024
"Theirs is a home fortune should shine out of, and its brightness, in Jamie Platt’s lighting design, comes to count for less and less, blinking out to blue and red in moody transitions."
