Happy Days

Happy Days was staged as an excerpt in a studio theatre between 2015 and 2018. The design put a white shredded-paper mound at the centre of the room, with a single armchair, a parasol and scattered chairs for the audience close around it. Directing, lighting and set design were handled together, which let the image and the playing space be solved as one problem.

The lighting works in tight pools and visible shafts, with a warm key on the figure against a cool, near-empty surround, and purple accents falling across the white paper. The audience sits close enough that the room and the stage share the same air.