Matthew Wright

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Designs include:

Costume designs include the Menier Chocolate Factory’s LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (also West End, Olivier Award nomination for Best Costume Design) and SWEET CHARITY. Set and costume designs include EVITA (UK tour); KES (Liverpool PLayouse Theatre); SHADOWLANDS and THE GLASS MENAGERIE (West End); SPEAKING LIKE MAGPIES (Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford/ West End, 2006 TMA Best Design Nomination); IN PRAISE OF LOVE (Chichester Festival); ON THE CEILING (Birmingham Rep/ Garrick); A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY, WHAT THE BUTLER SAW and ALPHABETICAL ORDER (Salisbury Playhouse); A SONG AT TWILIGHT (UK tour); BLACKBIRD (Market Theatre, Johannesburg); U.S AND THEM and THE DEAD EYE BOY  (Hampstead); THE GREEN MAN (Bush Theatre/ Theatre Royal Plymouth); For Birmingham Rep, KATHARINE de SOUZA (Door Studio), GETTING TO THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN, BEHZTI, DEADEYE (Kali Theatre, Birmingham Rep/Soho); BELLS & CHAOS (Kali Theatre, Birmingham Rep/ Southwark Playhouse); PRESENCE (Theatre Royal Plymouth); THEY ARE PLAYING OUR SONG (Menier Chocolate Factory); ONE UNDER (Tricycle); CLOUDS (UK tour).

 

Last updated January 2010

 

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.’