Creditors
Show: 'Creditors' By August Strindberg
In a version by David Greig
Presented by: C Company
Venue: The New Theatre
Run: 25 Jan – 6 Feb 2016
Role: Lighting Designer
In a holiday hotel by the sea, Adolph anxiously awaits the return of his wife, Tekla, and finds seeming solace in the words of a stranger, Gustav.
Creditors is a darkly comic, thrillingly intimate examination of seduction, betrayal, and the ways we never let go.
The deconstruction of Tekla and Adolphs marriage is mirrored in the journey of the lighting. As Adolph's confidence and hope fades, so do the lights until leaving all three characters in inescapable darkness.
Creative team:
Director - Aoife Spillane-Hinks
Set designer - Cait Corkery
Costume designer - Barbara Mc Carthy
Sound designer - Ivan Birthistle
Lighting designer - Hanna Bowe
Producer - Aisling O' Brien
Stage manager - Chris Nugent
Production assistant - Hillary Dziminski
Photography & Graphic design - Ste Murray
Performers:
Ronan Leahy
Kevin Olohan
Susan Bracken
Production support by:
Rough Magic Theatre Company
Images provided by Ste Murray (www.ste.ie)
February 01, 2016
The Independent - Strindberg's bilious take on passion
August Strindberg's vision of personal passion always seems to distil itself into a concentration of enmity. Physical passion between the sexes in his dystopian world can only lead to pain, even emotional death. But then Strindberg was writing from the experience of an emotional life that pushed him into a melancholic despair close to insanity.
January 27, 2016
Examiner - Greig’s destructive "Creditors" is a vicious treat
What's this item about? What makes it interesting? Write a catchy description to grab your audience's attention...“Underneath the nice clothes I'm completely naked,” Tekla says at one point. The same holds true for C Company’s production of ‘Creditors.’ For underneath Greig’s fine writing something nakedly destructive lurks, seen in this brave production that has the power to engage, to provoke and to disturb.
January 28, 2016
No More Work Horse - Creditors
The set for this play is quite impressive, with a hotel room being recreated complete with abstract art on the walls and brass light fittings above. It has the feel of a hotel in some exotic location, where the married couple have escaped to take a break from their daily lives.