Plaza Suite

I had a very enjoyable night out on Thursday last 1^st of March at Rough Magic’s www.roughmagic.ie/Productions/What-s-on/PLAZA-SUITE production of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite at the Gaiety Theatre http://www.gaietytheatre.ie/

The performance and presentation was a testament to the quality of Rough Magic’s SEEDS programme for development of new theatre artists. 

Scenographer Blaithin Sheeran http://www.irishplayography.com/person.aspx?personid=528

acquitted herself reasonably well in devising an appropriate setting to evoke a supportive visual ambiance and atmosphere to the production. Bearing in mind that this was a travelling set having been designed for transport around the country and setting up on stages of varying size in Cork, Waterford, Ennis, Tralee, Bray, Portlaoise, Letterkenny and Longford  there were no distracting joins visible to the audience. Blaithin also designed the costumes. The resetting of the dressing props and hand props by the choreographed and costumed stage crew during the interval was well done and maintained the theatrical illusion. Equally important to creating the appropriate visual ambiance and atmosphere was Lighting Designer Sarah Jane Shiels’ contribution.

Already I am looking forward to Rough Magic’s next production “Improbable Frequency” http://www.roughmagic.ie/Productions/What-s-on/Improbable-Frequency and Alan Farquharson’s fascinating set for it. http://indigo.ie/~alanf/

Showing from: March 13^th, to 24^th 2012

Patrick M