A performer in a pale dress and crown stands in a white spotlight amid red-lit surrounding figures.

Carrie: The Musical

The Production

Guildford School of Acting’s BA Actor-Musician production of Carrie: The Musical brought the cult horror musical to GSA in March 2024.

48 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Sibylla Archdale Kalid
Commissioned by: Guildford School of Acting
Photography: Steve Gregson

A wide red-lit stage shows modular wall panels, a central platform and bodies or props lying across the floor.

A headset technician stands in intense red side-stage light beside equipment, looking toward the lit stage.

A headset crew member smiles in a blue-lit corridor with two other crew members behind her.

A smiling backstage crew member in a helmet and hi-vis vest is framed through the rungs of a ladder.

A large ensemble fills the stage under red and blue light, with musicians raised on a platform above them.

Performers stride forward with guitars under blue beams, led by a central player holding a red electric guitar.

Students in sportswear play with a ball on an open blue-green stage while others watch from the sides.

A lone performer kneels at centre stage with hands clasped beneath blue and green overhead light.

A performer stands in a bright doorway-like frame on a platform while others remain in dark blue silhouette around her.

A group of students surrounds a performer on the floor in a brightly lit blue stage scene.

A solo singer stands beneath blue and pink top light, casting a large shadow across the stage floor.

A seated performer is isolated in a white pool of light while another performer stands elevated above in darkness.

Two performers sit closely beside a candle and chair, lit by cool blue and warm pink stage light.

A performer wearing a visible cross raises both hands against a blue-lit rectangular frame.

One performer bends over another who lies across a rectangular platform framed by glowing blue set lines.

Two young women stand arm in arm in warm stage light while other cast members blur behind them.

Two performers face each other in blue light during an intimate exchange onstage.

A violinist plays in the foreground while a solo performer stands far away on a blue-lit runway.

Two seated performers hold hands closely within a blue-framed stage setting.

A young woman embraces a seated performer on the floor in cool blue light.

A guitarist sings beneath blue overhead lights with seated performers visible behind him.

A performer watches from behind a doorway while another performer passes blurred in the foreground.

An ensemble stands in a line across the stage beneath smoky blue and amber lighting.

A musician plays flute in vivid magenta side light beside tall set panels.

Two young women face each other and hold hands on a blue-lit stage.

A crouched performer faces a standing guitarist while the ensemble watches from the dark set behind them.

Two performers stand far apart on a small platform beneath white beams cutting through haze.

A red-lit dinner table scene is surrounded by musicians and performers across the stage.

A young woman at a red-lit dining table reaches toward a glass, with musicians behind her.

A band and singers fill the stage under magenta starburst lights and a patterned floor wash.

An ensemble performs with guitars in a vivid purple-blue musical number.

A solo singer holds a small object beside a mannequin dressed in pale fabric.

Two performers hold each other mid-dance inside a glowing blue rectangular frame.

A singer plays guitar in close-up under purple light before a red-draped set.

Two performers work with makeup beside a mannequin wearing a pale dress.

A performer adjusts headphones or a headpiece in warm pink and blue light.

A formally dressed ensemble dances across the stage beneath bright starburst lighting.

A guitarist in the foreground faces a cheering group under purple-blue stage lights.

Two performers sit close together in pink and purple side light, one smiling warmly.

A large formal dance fills the stage beneath starburst lights, with musicians on the balcony above.

A crowned performer with red-stained face and dress smiles beneath red drapes and surrounding silhouettes.

A wide red-and-white lit stage frames a blood-stained figure at the rear while other performers stand apart.

A blood-stained performer sits alone on the floor, inspecting her hands in a tight spotlight.

A blood-stained performer sits among red fabric with hands held out in stark stage light.

A blue-lit wide stage shows a seated blood-stained performer on the runway with another figure in the distance.

A performer cradles a blood-stained person in a pale satin dress on the platform.

A dark blue tableau shows a performer holding a blood-stained person while a flautist stands in the background.

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