The Society of British Theatre Designers

2011 National Exhibition

Elroy Ashmore

The Rivals

The Rivals
  • Production: The Rivals
  • Company: Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke - Greenwich Theatre co-production
  • Venue: Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke - Greenwich Theatre
  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Directed by: Alasdair Ramsay
  • Lighting Design by: Simon Hutchings
  • Costume Design by: Elroy Ashmore
  • Set designed by: Elroy Ashmore
  • Design © Elroy Ashmore
  • Image © Elroy Ashmore
Sir Anthony Absolute and Captain Absolute meet in the street Pleasure seekers in Bath looking for intrigue, romance and danger. They live on the street, (or catwalk,) which thrusts into the audience, to see and be seen. Costumed in eighteenth century clothes with with twenty-first century designer names and labels, each reflecting character, they parade before obelisks and mirrors: A society of style over content - much as our own!