Biography
ProfessionalTim has been designing opera, theatre, ballet and pantomime in the UK, Europe and America for over 25 years.
His producton of Candide for Scottish Opera was nominated for UK Stage Opera Award and RPS Opera Awards 2023.
He won The Herald Scottish Culture Award for Design 2019 for his production of Pagliacci for Scottish Opera.
He has worked extensively with Scottish Opera, Tête à Tête, Nottingham Playhouse, The Stephen Joseph Theatre and The Orange Tree Theatre.
PAGLIACCI
Set & Costume Designer
2018
Quad Span Tent – Seedhill Sportsground, Paisley
Scottish Opera
Winner of The Herald Culture Award for Design 2019
Pagliacci is the story of a comedia troupe visiting a town during the feast of the assumption. Our production was conceived with the community at its heart. Scottish Opera came to Paisley in their curtain side trailer for Sma Shot day, a celebration of the historic victory of the weavers over their employers.
Performed in a Quad span tent on a large sports field with a company of nearly 200, including local bell ringers. The audience enjoyed Punch and Judy, a fortune teller, dressing-up, games, raffles, hotdogs, ice-cream, bubbles, a donkey and the Paisley parade of banners lead by the Charleston drum.
The chorus were dressed to be indistinguishable from a Paisley audience, so unexpectedly, the person standing next to you would suddenly start singing.
Credits:
Bill Bankes-Jones
Lissa Lorenz
Alex Reedijk
Robert B. Dickson
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Alex McCabe
Caroline Campbell
Stuart Stratford
Scottish Opera Graphic Design Department
Ailsa Munro
Brian Mitchell
Amy Wilson
Edd Smith
Sara Löfgren
Ali Currie
Marian Colquhoun
Laurie Rankin
Natasha Jiggins
David Young
Sheelagh Barnard
Gloria del Monte
Gordon Clements
Kelvin Guy
Neil Haynes
John Liddell
Lorna Price
Sally-Ann Provan
Raymond Short
Moonlight and Magnolias
Designer
2020
Nottingham Playhouse
This was the very last production at Nottingham Playhouse before the 2020 lockdown.
Ironically about the 5 day lockdown to write “Gone With The Wind”.
Credits:
Kirsty Patrick Ward
Jamie Platt
Will Simpson
Ella Wahlstrom
Lucia Sanchez Roldan
Hansel and Gretel
Designer
2012
Scottish Opera
Credits:
Bill Bankes-Jones
Mark Doubleday
Kally Lloyd-Jones
Sleeping Beauty
Designer
2019
Nottingham Playhouse
Kenneth Alan Taylor’s last panto at Nottingham Playhouse
***** “Warm-hearted and irrepressible” – The Stage
My 13th panto at this location.
Credits:
Kenneth Alan Taylor
Jason Taylor
Adele Parry
The Cherry Orchard
Designer
2017
Nottingham Playhouse
Giles Groft’s final production at Nottingham Playhouse.
A show about leaving.
The set was dismantled as the show progressed.
Starting with the most detailed Russian interior and ending with the stage of Nottingham Playhouse.
Credits:
Giles Croft
Steph Bartle
Adam P McCready
Adele Parry
Candide
Designer
2022
New Rotterdam Wharf
Scottish Opera
Nominated for UK Stage Award for Opera and RPS Opera Award 2023
A site-specific promenade reimagining of “Candide (or Optimism)” set in a semi-open, Covid-safe 100m marquee on a Glasgow lorry park. The 85-strong community chorus included asylum seekers from the Maryhill Integration Network who mingled with the 400 capacity audience, providing an immediate close-up reconnection between audiences and performers. The show’s themes of war, global disasters, refugees, religious and political corruptiuon, misogyny, anti-Semitism, sex trafficking, gambling and substance abuse were illustrated via the “optimistic” lenses of social media, influencers and reality TV. Live video feed to four large screens meant the action was seen by all including those who could not promenade. All access and mobility issues for audience and performers were addressed early in the design stage with acting areas and seating banks ramped. A wheelchair route was offered but not made compulsory. Created sustainably wherever possible using Scottish Opera’s own scenic storage containers and the resources of Reset Scenery.
Credits:
Jack Furness
Clare O’Donoghue
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Website: http://timmeacock.co.uk