Hallelujah!

Hallelujah!, directed by Fiona Ramsay, was designed as two distinct playing spaces. One is a domestic living room with floral wallpaper, a window, an open doorway and a red couch on a patterned rug. The other is a bar with an illuminated sign, a piano, stools and a raised blue floor.

Both sets are built for an audience sitting close, and the lighting does the separating work: warm, low interiors for the domestic scenes and cold blue for the bar, so the two worlds read apart. Set and lighting were designed together, which kept the palettes consistent around the performers.