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The aim of this project was to respond to the language and themes in the following plays instinctively - not necessarily with design in mind. I worked with ink sketches and photographs that I've taken/found inspired by key soliloquies. Then I made collages by superimposing them in photoshop. The aim is to see how a director, lighting designer, choreographer, composer or actor would respond to and decode these artworks.
macbeth
![“Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse/ The curtain’d sleep” Macbeth’s last soliloquy](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/e6723ee2d8544f937b1fd34d5e0c7f71/585d5d11-577a-426c-ae6e-7fe8abd92f08_rw_1920.jpg?h=dd68b2601d7a88ebce9d9a28677592ed)
“Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse/ The curtain’d sleep” Macbeth’s last soliloquy
![“Fair is foul and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air” Witches 1:1](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/e6723ee2d8544f937b1fd34d5e0c7f71/c02882a0-d176-4d6c-bf0b-f66cd9b355f9_rw_1200.jpg?h=e2361771575401b3f1023792bbc07bff)
“Fair is foul and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air” Witches 1:1
![“[We] know not what we fear / But float upon a wild and violent sea” Ross Act 4 Sc 2](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/e6723ee2d8544f937b1fd34d5e0c7f71/5d9dcc2c-ec50-4d3a-9056-d368a049eb51_rw_1200.jpg?h=1f95828feb4cb120dba9dfd8210fbd7a)
“[We] know not what we fear / But float upon a wild and violent sea” Ross Act 4 Sc 2
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A close-up of one of the photo-collages. I’d like to develop this image and see how it would work with costumes and projection.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
![“The fold stands empty in the drowned field.”](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/e6723ee2d8544f937b1fd34d5e0c7f71/c1db5519-6bec-41fe-8b62-dee0808263d4_rw_1920.jpg?h=d35ae8e19c352671d275d1b538e85412)
“The fold stands empty in the drowned field.”
![“Contagious fogs; which falling in the land / Have every pelting river made so proud / That they have overborne their continents...” Titania Act 1 Sc 1](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/e6723ee2d8544f937b1fd34d5e0c7f71/80579a80-946f-4121-9d32-b19024697be4_rw_3840.jpg?h=35830bad4149f8bf1ec57117610fcc4b)
“Contagious fogs; which falling in the land / Have every pelting river made so proud / That they have overborne their continents...” Titania Act 1 Sc 1
![“Everything seems double...” Hermia 4:1](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/e6723ee2d8544f937b1fd34d5e0c7f71/cc0402aa-27cf-4779-9b63-261722470e56_rw_1920.jpg?h=4786d5fbe1be004725eb8989463322c9)
“Everything seems double...” Hermia 4:1
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/e6723ee2d8544f937b1fd34d5e0c7f71/3ec36ac0-4f81-44dc-bf98-428b75cd9ee6_rw_1920.jpg?h=fe14d60cd570999683bd96e136c6811c)
A winter's tale
![“Tis time, descend; be stone no more” Paulina Act 5 Sc 3](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/e6723ee2d8544f937b1fd34d5e0c7f71/4a47d998-71a5-4d52-857a-dbd029a43849_rw_1920.jpg?h=8567b20eb9d7aebc801bb4e3edda2d4e)
“Tis time, descend; be stone no more” Paulina Act 5 Sc 3
![“Tell me what blessings I have here alive / That I should fear to die?” Hermione 3:1](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/e6723ee2d8544f937b1fd34d5e0c7f71/5b29f2f6-b746-4610-938d-2480c8c41f64_rw_1920.jpg?h=1d06e9f3e03aa9acf6b03359b5670a2f)
“Tell me what blessings I have here alive / That I should fear to die?” Hermione 3:1
A comedy of Errors
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/e6723ee2d8544f937b1fd34d5e0c7f71/8dcf0f8b-a17c-45ed-8dbe-a81f7e089da3_rw_1920.jpg?h=1e03cb24620d0d2deddf8286b3cc06d8)
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/e6723ee2d8544f937b1fd34d5e0c7f71/eb574586-d592-465c-bfa1-9a380aedba19_rw_1920.jpg?h=bde1fa75b30b7180ca9ee0e2045416ac)
king lear
![“The tempest in my mind” King Lear Act 3 Sc 4](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/e6723ee2d8544f937b1fd34d5e0c7f71/eb50a3eb-4d2a-4036-952a-73b453c898e4_rw_1920.jpg?h=f6041562c679eae78693069a8aa983db)
“The tempest in my mind” King Lear Act 3 Sc 4
![King Lear in the storm](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/e6723ee2d8544f937b1fd34d5e0c7f71/96ded3fb-b7fb-4cd0-90ad-ab5d35f614c9_rw_1920.jpg?h=830c0e35d3c6b58620250cd246daf424)