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Matthew designed SHADOWLANDS, starring Charles Dance and Janie Dee and THE GLASS MENAGERIE, starring Jessica Lange, in the West End last year and current and forthcoming designs include A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY (autumn season, Salisbury Playhouse); EVITA for Kenwright Ltd on a UK tour and the costumes for LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, which is coming to the West End following its previous run at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
Other recent designs include THEY ARE PLAYING OUR SONG with Connie Fisher at the Chocolate Factory; BLACKBIRD (Market Theatre, Johannesburg); IN PRAISE OF LOVE (Chichester Festival); WHAT THE BUTLER SAW, ALPHABETICAL ORDER (Salisbury Playhouse) and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s SPEAKING LIKE MAGPIES (Stratford/West End) for which he was nominated for the 2006 TMA Best Design Award.
Other productions include ON THE CEILING by Nigel Planer (Birmingham Rep and the Garrick Theatre); U.S AND THEM and THE DEAD EYE BOY (Hampstead); THE GREEN MAN (Bush Theatre & Theatre Royal Plymouth); DEADEYE (Kali Theatre at Birmingham Rep/Soho Theatre); KATHARINE de SOUZA (Door Studio Birmingham Rep); PRESENCE (Plymouth Theatre Royal); ONE UNDER (Tricycle); CLOUDS (UK tour); BELLS & CHAOS (Kali Theatre at Birmingham Rep & Southwark Playhouse) and GETTING TO THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN as well as the highly controversial BEHZTI at Birmingham Rep.
Last updated October 2008
ON GLASS MENAGERIE starring Jessica Lange - West End:-
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ‘The designs are non-naturalistic, with a great fire escape disappearing up into the flies..... A great play has been magnificently revived’
EVENING STANDARD ‘Matthew Wright’s evocative design consists of a humble, minimalist sitting room seen only in bare outline and with a picture-frame surround.’
THE TIMES ‘Matthew Wright’s set, a tiny apartment perched inside a picture frame festooned with roses yet topped by a fire escape that reaches to the flies, is well suited to the situation.
THE LONDON PAPER ‘Matthew Wright’s set captures the sepia-toned symbolism of Williams’ dramatic imagination. It is without walls, but rose-printed wallpaper frames the scene as if it is a photograph mounted in a scrapbook.’
THE OBSERVER ‘Matthew Wright’s design is, as Williams requested, fuzzily lit and striped with shadows’.
THE STAGE ‘ Matthew Wright’s semi-realistic setting incorporates the symbolic fire escape reaching to the flies, a design that matches the play with an enclosed domestic nest surrounded by a St Louis cityscape of shadowy girders.
LONDON LITE ‘And the set is astonishing: a wallpapered frame encloses the living space with fire escape steps rising above it, offering the claustrophobia of family living and the whispered promise of escape.’
THE MAIL ON SUNDAY ‘Rupert Gould’s superbly atmospheric revival underlines in the design, which makes a prison of the shabby apartment, oppressively enclosed by a fire escape and deprived of light.’
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