"Mushroom Man" designed by Sophia Lovell Smith
"Mushroom Man" by Hannah Beecham
'The Hungry Grass'/2000
Directed by Rosamunde Hutt - Lighting by Ceri James
DESIGNER: SOPHIA LOVELL SMITH
Act 2: Jed and Dilly.

"Mushroom Man" struck me as a dark story of obsession and punishment. How to build a skeleton (set) for this warped underworld? Raw surfaces, bruised flesh, peeling skin, erupting fungi, hidden gills...
Through fragments of tilting floor and earth, a tower of accumulated knowledge pushes up. An outsider intrudes... to let in light and shatter spores.

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(For more information about the designer see her entry in the Designers' Register)
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