Preludes

‘Designer Rebecca Brower has created a dreamscape – a strange recess of his fractured mind on stage. The shiny black parquet is broken up where the baby grand is, as if it’s crashed landed. It’s like a trendy piano bar, a psychiatrist’s office, a hallucination. Sinuous curves in the set clash with the thin sticks of neon that recede in angular arcs over the stage… ’

‘Rebecca Brower’s set (with tiered seating on two sides of the square) is a shallow black platform housing a black grand piano; it is flanked by two sound-mixing desks and framed by pancil-thin concentric rhomboids of light that intermittently flash and flicker and glow with white and blue and red against the surrounding darkness….’