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05/12/2011 to 01/01/2012
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With a few smoke effects, designer Mark Dymock’s effective flashes of battle lights, and Matt Marks’ original soundtrack, Farm Boy succeeds with well-crafted honesty, humor and its own emotional power.
Curtain Up 14/12/2011
The American premiere of Farm Boy was really well done overall. Having to take on Morpurgo’s sweeping world and not being blessed with Spielberg’s budget, I felt the lighting, the set and the production’s original music were simple, crisp and really added to the dimensionality of the world.
Off Broadway World 13/12/2011
With only an ancient tractor (a stylized work of folk art crafted by Tim Brierley and Susan Winters) and Mark Dymock's dreamy lighting to establish the bucolic setting, thesps' hypnotic voices are enough to create the illusion of a working farm teeming with life.
Marilyn Stasio, Variety 13/12/2011
With nothing more than Tim Brierley and Susan Winters' detailed and evocative tractor sitting center stage and one wooden chair, Morpurgo and Buckroyd's language conjures the sights, sounds, and even the smells of rural life, aided only by Mark Dymock's sensitive lighting, Matt Marks... continue reading
Erik Haagensen, Backstage 13/12/2011
But Mark Dymock's lighting reshapes the space fluidly and creates a number of striking looks with a very small rig.
David Barbour, Lighting and Sound America 14/12/2011
