Set and costume designs for The Pitchfork Disney by Philip Ridley, for Chapter Arts Centre
The setting is based on abandoned mental institutions in the UK. The set becomes a metaphor for Presley's disturbed mind. The surreal characters of Pitchfork and Disney have been interpreted as products of Presley's imagination, represented onstage by real actors. Presley's scrawled drawings on the wall are mirrored in Cosmo and Pitchfork's body tattoos, to indicate that the audience are in Presley's mental landscape. The audience is led on a disorientating journey through narrow corridors, and the whole space is raked. And so an artificial site-specific space is created within a traditional studio environment.
Model for set of Pitchfork Disney.
Close ups of the journey that the audience takes into the "abandoned asylum"
Costume design for Cosmo
Costume design for Cosmo
Costume design for Haley
Costume design for Presley
Costume design for Presley
Research images/ Moodboards for drawings on the walls of the bathroom
Research images/ Moodboards for set
Research images/ Moodboards for Cosmos and Pitchfork character
Research images/ Moodboards for set