Ghost Quartet // Boulevard Theatre 2019
by Dave Malloy
director: Bill Buckhurst
musical director, supervisor and additional arrangements: Benjamin Cox
movement director: Georgina Lamb
lighting designer: Emma Chapman
sound designer: David Gregory
photographer: Marc Brenner
“Designer Simon Kenny turns the playing space with its tarnished mirrored floor into an attic of the mind, stuffed not just with the astonishing array of instruments that are used by the actor-musicians, but also photographs, old trunks, a telescope, a drinks trolley. They all play their part or operate as an aide-memoire in an evening that conjures that uncanny sense of capturing a glimpse of something just beyond your line of vision.” Lyn Gardner
★★★★ “You get the feeling that the world of Simon Kenny’s set only exists at night.” The Guardian
★★★★ “Simon Kenny’s set is part junk shop, with it’s curios and antiques, and part haunted house, with it’s dusty old trunks. It’s also, more abstractly, like a campfire - a place where we’ve gathered to hear these ghost stories.” The Stage
★★★★ “A bewitching in-the-round production, the performers cast their spell from within a charmed circle.” The Times
★★★★ “It creates a hermetic world onstage - one composed of shards and scraps of story as reflected in the set with it’s piles of thick, leather-bound volumes. ” Financial Times
★★★★ “A stylish treasure trove…a vivid jumble of sound, image and feeling.” The Arts Desk