With only a week to prepare, and a few days after receiving the set design, the challenge was to have all my documentation finished and the show pre-programmed before the load-in. Using Vectorworks and Augment3d, I planned and visualised the design in a virtual Headgate Theatre, experimenting with different ideas and looks before we had access to the space, then programmed the whole show on ETC Eos.

The brief was to create distinct moods for each area of the institution: the cold, calculating office, the warmer but unsettling staff break room, and the interview room, lit with practical lamps.

The run was incredibly rewarding. Working with an extremely talented youth cast, we created clinically cool moments and contrasted them with the oppressive delusion forced on the patients by the regime running the institution, while also exposing the insanity of the management staff.