Ensemble performers lift a figure high into a warm circular pool of light while others reach upward across the red-lit stage.

PATS Studio Theatre (GSA)2024

A Monster Calls

The Production

Guildford School of Acting's 2024 production of A Monster Calls was staged at PATS Studio Theatre, with Steve Gregson credited for production photography. The archive captures an ensemble-led staging of the play, including its physical realisation of Conor O'Malley and the Monster.

45 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Matthew Coulton
Movement Director: Rachel Birch-Lawson
Lighting Design: Jon Stacey
Set Design: Tara Usher
Costume Design: Zoe Murdoch
Sound Design: Johnny Edwards
Commissioned by: Guildford School of Acting
Photography: Steve Gregson

An empty blue stage room sits beneath a red digital clock reading 12:02, with a bed and chairs barely visible at the back.

A young man lies on a bed reading in blue light, with warm tree-like shadows falling across the wall behind him.

A young man sits upright in bed while a pale-haired woman stands behind him in a blue-lit room.

A wide bedroom scene shows a bed beneath a red 12:07 clock, with silhouetted figures spaced around the blue stage.

A red-haired schoolboy stares forward in a green blazer, framed by a warm window panel with a tree shadow behind him.

A schoolboy in uniform holds a notebook in a small pool of light against a darkened wall.

A solitary figure stands in a dim blue room, separated from amber-lit windows and tree shadows at the back.

A teenage boy in shirt and tie sits at a school desk, his reflection ghosted in the glass beside him.

Two schoolboys with backpacks face each other at close range in a tense confrontation.

A young girl in school uniform looks up anxiously toward a boy standing in the foreground.

A red-haired schoolboy leans on one hand at a classroom desk, pencil and pencil case in front of him.

A student at a desk looks up as a robed figure in a headscarf leans beside him in coloured stage light.

Ragged-clothed performers crouch and surge toward a young man seen from behind under green light.

A performer stands elevated by a crouching ensemble while a young man watches from the side.

A ragged figure with a crutch crouches facing a young man, their shadows cast onto the green-lit wall.

A suited student stands in an isolated spotlight, raising crumpled papers overhead in a dark room.

A schoolboy stands beneath a red 12:07 clock with his hand to his face, silhouetted figures behind him.

Three performers crouch in intense red light, the central ragged figure staring outward.

Two ragged performers crowd behind a schoolboy in red light as he stands stiffly facing forward.

Two figures stand far apart in a rectangular spotlight on a bare room set.

Two figures embrace in a dark red stage room near shadowed window panels.

A woman in a floral top spreads her arms while a seated woman and a schoolboy watch her.

A pale-haired woman sits beside a cluttered table and laundry basket, speaking toward a boy at the edge of the frame.

A girl grips a seated schoolboy by the head while two others watch in a bright classroom-like set.

A young man stands alone in white light facing a crouched ensemble gathered in red at the far side of the room.

A central ragged performer raises two poles while others stand behind in red-pink light.

Two ragged performers sit and kneel apart in a wide pink-blue stage space with a tree shadow in the windows.

The ensemble fills the stage in sculptural movement around two dancers under teal and amber light.

A dancer whips a pole through warm light as ensemble figures frame the action around the stage.

The ensemble surrounds a young man curled on the floor as one performer bends toward him.

A young man sits curled beneath a warm tree-shadowed window while a pale-haired woman stands over him.

A hospital-like scene with an IV stand shows a seated patient supported between two others.

A schoolboy grips fabric near a headscarfed figure as another performer reaches across them in red light.

Three performers stand close together in a tight blue spotlight surrounded by darkness.

A suited young man bends close to a headscarfed figure, holding her hand in red and blue light.

A schoolboy holding a baby doll stands below a huge red 12:07 clock.

A male dancer leaps toward the camera while other performers hold tense positions across the bright stage.

A small seated figure is alone against a vast red-lit wall and tall window frames.

A woman in a check jacket clasps her hands and looks upward in bright isolated light.

A red-haired student reads a letter at a desk in low side light.

A young man with a medical headlamp leans over a headscarfed patient who grips his shirt near an IV tube.

The ensemble clusters protectively around a seated figure on the floor beneath warm light and a tree-shadowed window.

A young man stands centered in a white spotlight as performers crouch around the red-lit edges of the stage.

A hospital bed tableau sits under a red 12:06 clock in a wide bare stage room.

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