A close side-lit portrait shows a performer in a brown suit looking left against a black background.

The Backstage Theatre, Mountview2026

55 Days

The Production

Mountview’s MA Performance – Acting cohort presented Howard Brenton’s 55 Days, a drama about the political crisis following the English Civil War.

8 photographs in the curated edit

Director: James Yeatman
Lighting Design: Matt Hockley
Set Design: Nicolai Hart-Hansen
Costume Design: Sorcha Corcoran
Sound Design: Sonum Batra
Commissioned by: Mountview
Photography: Steve Gregson

Two figures face each other in darkness as a bright white beam cuts between them.

A lone performer stands at the far end of a bright green table beneath a bank of overhead lights.

Performers gather around a long green table with a red-costumed figure seated at the far end.

A seated performer in a military-style uniform and cap is isolated in a formal portrait against darkness.

A seated man writes in a book at a green table, lit starkly against a dark stage.

A man in a dark jacket confronts a uniformed officer in cap at close range under warm light.

A red-costumed figure stands in shadow while a seated uniformed figure is backlit by an intense beam.

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