The Society of British Theatre Designers

2011 National Exhibition

Martyn Bainbridge

Gallery Images

  • Under Milk Wood
  • Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
  • The Birthday Party

Biography

Martyn Bainbridge Biography

Martyn Bainbridge is an Associate Designer of Clwyd Theatr Cymru.

Martyn’s productions for Terry Hands at Clwyd Theatr Cymru are Arcadia, The Crucible, Under Milk Wood, Night Must Fall, The Norman Conquests: Table Manners, Living together, Round and Round the Garden, Memory and Arden of Faversham. Other productions for Clwyd Theatr Cymru include Gaslight, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls, The Birthday Party, A Toy Epic, Cariad, The Drawer Boy, Memory (New York & London) and Festen.

Among his other theatre designs are A Midsummer Night’s Dream (open air production for Singapore Repertory Theatre), Brief Encounter (The Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue) and a series of productions for Theatre Royal Plymouth, namely A Little Night Music, The Birthday Party, Kes, Absurd Person Singular, My Cousin Rachel, Charley’s Aunt, Master Forger, I Have Been Here Before, Pump Boys and Dinettes, The Shadow of a Gunman. He designed Deathtrap and Intimate Exchanges for the Northcott Theatre, The Soldier’s Tale for the Oxford Playhouse, On the Razzle for the Leeds Playhouse and Measure for Measure for the Nye Teatre Oslo.

Opera Designs include most recently Don Giovanni (Royal Scottish Academy), Ariadne Auf Naxos (Garsington Opera), The Magic Flute (Kent Opera), The Trial (Bloomsbury Theatre), Madama Butterfly (Phoenix Opera) Norma, La Traviata (Northern Ireland Opera), Le Nozze di Figaro (Guildhall), La Rondine (Royal Academy of Music).
Martyn Bainbridge’s ballet designs include Daphnis and Chloë (Royal Ballet at Covent Garden).

He has also designed exhibition, among them The Astronomers (London Planetarium), Lawrence of Arabia (National Portrait Gallery), Daendels (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), Armada 1588-1988 and Peter the Great (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich), Madame Tussaud Scenerama Amsterdam, EMI Centenary Exhibition (Canary Wharf) and The Chamber of Horrors (Madame Tussaud’s London).