Charlie Cridlan
Professional
- Production: Uncle Vanya
- Venue: Wilton's Music Hall, London
- Year: 2007
- Author: Chekhov
- Directed by: Hugh Fraser
- Lighting Design by: Nick Holderidge
- Costume Design by: CHARLIE CRIDLAN
- Set designed by: CHARLIE CRIDLAN
- Photography by: Rod Morris
- Design © CHARLIE CRIDLAN
The faded grandeur of Wilton's Music Hall provided the perfect setting for the production inspired by the film "Vanya on 42nd Street". I carefully chose junk furniture, objects and drapes that would suggest simultaneously a disused theatre and an antiquated Russian villa in no particular time or space, but with a timeless quality. We allowed the text to draw the audience into the play, the rickety staircases and barley-twist balconies of Wilton's added bundles of atmosphere.
