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Yes
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Dates:
02/03/2010 to 27/08/2010
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Touring re-lighter: Chris Withers, Photographs: Jude Palmer
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Press quotes
The staging of the performance plays cleverly with perception and imagination, and the intense peculiar lighting has a Hammer Horror quality that would make any Poe fan proud... Over the top, deliberately over acted, and with a stage setting brilliantly exaggerating every horrible twist and turn.
Natalie Burns, Guide 2 Bristol 10/04/2010
Some Edinburgh venues can be a bit restricted when it comes to staging and lighting. This year, we’re at the Pleasance Grand; and we have a new lighting design for Ernest created by Paul Green – it’s added so much to it.
Interview with James Seager, Edinburgh Spotlight
the starkly lit stage bringing to mind the unhinged sets in 1920s horror
Lee McRonald, Hairline 26/08/2010
the piece is strong on atmosphere, gloomy, beautifully lit and rich in texture.
William McEvoy, The Stage
The gothic designs recall the playful Tim Burton; the lighting, smoke and flickering mirrors echo Hitchcock and the narrative has the weirdness and paranoia of Franz Kafka. Atmosphere is all in Ernest And The Pale Moon, and on Thursday it made for the most visually memorable night’s theatre your... continue reading
Charles Hutchinson, York Press 24/05/2010
Visually this show is stunning. Lighting and props combine to create the strange moonlit world of the play, a darkly magical world where a moon can be suggested by a torch shining through a lace parasol as easily as by the blue spotlight.Tightly scripted, beautifully staged and inventively realised... continue reading
Rebecca Carey, Fringe Review 26/08/2010
