The Society of British Theatre Designers

In 'The Tales Of Ballycumber' Nicholas, a bachelor farmer, haunted by his stories and solitude, describes how the daffodils planted by his mother some fifty years ago are in full bloom. "The white, the yellow then the blue", snowdrops, daffodils and finally bluebells. It is this continuing cycle of life which is echoed in Nicholas's stories dominated by the ghosts of the past ingrained in the very land that he works. Stories of young lives lost and those that chose to take it themselves. In the design it felt that he needed to be almost consumed by the landscape, the blanket of daffodils and the earth , curving up around him. A garden of rememberance. The only representation of his farmhouse a monolithic chimney piece towering over him.