Hogarth’s Progress

A large projected painting of a country house in a gilt frame on a dark green stage
Figures around a red-clothed table in front of a large projected red-toned painted interior
A lone figure on a raked stage in front of a projected aerial street map in blue
A seated figure in period dress in front of a large projected landscape painting of fields and a river
A seated figure beside a plinth in front of a projected screen of blue-lit statuettes
Women in white period gowns seated around a table beneath a projected leaded-window pattern
Figures in period dress in front of a large projected ornate ceiling pattern in orange and cream
A two-level timber and glass set lit in green, with figures in period costume
Two figures in period dress at a garden table in front of a projected townhouse façade and foliage
A large projected antique engraved print on a dark stage
A projected collage of etchings and portraits behind a bare stage
A projected drawing of scissors against red-tinted collaged panels
A projected black-and-white street map on a blue-lit stage with a curved wall of screens
A dark blue stage covered in projected old maps and documents, with a small red table

Hogarth’s Progress

Theatre · Directed by Anthony Banks

Video and projection design for Anthony Banks’s two-part Hogarth’s Progress, The Art of Success and The Taste of the Town, at the Rose Theatre, Kingston. Projected paintings, engravings, maps and interiors surround the actors and reshape the stage from scene to scene.

Director
Anthony Banks
Parts
The Art of Success; The Taste of the Town
Set design
Andrew D Edwards
Lighting
James Whiteside
Video & projection design
Douglas O’Connell
Seen at
Rose Theatre, Kingston (autumn 2018)

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