Don Pasquale

donizetti

creative centre, rye

september 2016

Don Pasquale opened at The Drayton Arms Theatre in 2015. Revived at the 2016 Rye Arts Festival and at The Cockpit in 2017.

This modern-day production of Donizetti's farcical masterpiece saw Don Pasquale re-imagined as an Albert Steptoe-esque owner of a packaging warehouse. Accordingly, the set was made entirely of packaging materials - cardboard boxes (from which unexpected props emerged), bubble-wrap, packing nuggets, and so forth. The boxes could be reconfigured by the performers according to need; an office space converted into a 'split-screen' arrangement of two rooms, and transformed into a 'box garden' magically lit by flickering candle-bags.

Video stills shown from the 2016 Rye Arts Festival performance.

Cast: Dingle Yandell, Lauren Libaw, Nicholas Morton, Joseph Doody,

Edward Jowle.

Jonathan Musgrave, repetiteur.

Design, stage and music direction by Alisdair Kitchen.