A silhouetted performer stands center stage in blue haze and spotlights, with three onlookers spaced around the dark, two-level set.

The Mack, Mountview2025

Curtains

The Production

Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts staged Curtains as part of its 2025 Postgraduate Season, performed by its MA Musical Theatre cohort at The Mack. The production ran 2–5 July 2025 and brought Kander and Ebb’s backstage musical murder mystery to Mountview’s Peckham campus.

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Director: Ola Ince
Musical Director: John Reddel
Choreographer: Gemma Payne
Lighting Design: Ryan Jones Littler
Set Design: Cory Anne Shipp
Costume Design: George P Martin
Sound Design: Matthew Giles
Commissioned by: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Photography: Steve Gregson

A performer in a black pinstripe suit with a fur collar holds both hands up, her expression tense against a black background.

A large ensemble strikes varied dance poses across a wooden stage beneath blue and amber spotlights on a two-level set.

Under a bright overhead spotlight, a performer in a red fringed costume leans close to a performer in a cowboy hat while others watch from around the stage.

A performer in a black pinstripe suit lunges forward singing as paper money flies through blue haze around crouching ensemble members.

A performer in a plaid shirt, red neckerchief, vest, and boots sits on a stage step, smiling toward the light beside an empty chair.

Performers in white sailor-style costumes pose across the balcony, stairs, and stage under cool blue spotlights.

One performer grips another from behind and holds a knife to her throat, both wide-eyed under stark stage lighting.

A central performer in a black pinstripe suit sings with arms outstretched as the ensemble fans out behind in a bright kickline pose.

A performer crouches low on the dark stage, startled by a hand emerging from a floor hatch holding a smoking pistol.

Under hazy spotlights, a seated performer faces a kneeling man on a wooden stage, with metal platforms and another figure receding into darkness behind them.

Two performers in red-and-black corset costumes dance against a black backdrop, one flinging an arm wide while holding a hat.

A performer in a white blouse and skirt holds up cash and a black briefcase, framed by three watchful figures in low, dramatic light.

A mostly dark stage is punctuated by small pools of light, with two performers at a table center stage and a man in a hat gesturing broadly at the side.

In a tight spotlight, a smiling man in a hat stands close behind a woman in a blue checked dress, his hands resting on her shoulders.

A man in suspenders and a blue tie leaps high with arms raised between a cowboy-costumed performer and a woman in a checked dress on a wooden stage.

A large ensemble dances in pairs across a polished wooden stage beneath narrow spotlights, with a two-level backstage set in shadow behind them.

A performer in a black pinstriped suit with a fur collar and gloves stares intensely forward, with a blurred man in a hat behind her.

A dancer in a red-and-black fringed costume spins at center stage as a cowboy-costumed performer watches, with other performers and crates around them.

An ensemble in Western-inspired costumes performs a synchronized dance line, arms extended and skirts flaring under low stage lighting.

A distressed woman in a white blouse and polka-dot skirt stands in a spotlight while a man behind her wears a large oval world-map costume and holds a hat.

A large ensemble kneels and stands across a wooden stage with blue ropes, singing under blue spotlights on an industrial two-level set.

Two women in close-up react tensely, one in a pinstripe suit with a black fur collar and gloves, the other in a blue gingham dress and neck scarf.

Four performers gather at the edge of a dark stage in smoky side light, with one woman seated and others standing behind her.

A central couple in white formal costume dance as an ensemble in white suits and hats reaches toward them beneath sweeping blue-white spotlights.

A man in a pinstripe suit and hat faces a seated woman in a red-and-black cabaret costume, with a shadowed ensemble watching behind them.

A woman in a white blouse and purple trousers leans forward, saluting with one hand as if calling out into the distance.

A line of performers in red-and-black cabaret costumes sing and pose across the stage under dramatic overhead beams, with a metal balcony set behind them.

A cowboy-costumed performer salutes between two dancers in red-and-black cabaret outfits, all caught in bright side light on the wooden stage.

Two performers in pinstripe suits stare toward a small illuminated face peering from a dark curtain opening between them.

A large ensemble crouches in a wide line with hands extended on a wooden stage, beneath bright spotlights and haze against an industrial balcony set.

Two men in suits stand close together backstage; one grins while raising a middle finger, and the other looks startled while holding a hat.

A woman seated before a vanity looks alarmed as another performer leans over her with a comb, while two men react dramatically nearby.

At center stage, two performers in period costumes hold hands and face each other, framed by dancers posing in warm side light.

A woman in a blue gingham dress looks frightened as another performer holds her from behind, while several performers lie tangled on the floor in the foreground.

A central performer in a suit and hat lunges forward with arms spread, surrounded by an ensemble dancing in smoky blue stage light.

Two performers face each other across an open stage under cool spotlights, with an upright piano to the left and a dark balcony set behind them.

In a close-up, a man in a hat and tie and a woman in a blue gingham dress stare wide-eyed with excited, tense expressions.

A woman in a long dark dress points across the stage under a single bright spotlight, while performers in red-and-black costumes wait around crates and chairs.

Three performers sing and dance while holding umbrellas horizontally, lit by bright blue stage light against a metal-framed set.

An ensemble in mostly white costumes stands in a wide formation around a woman in a pale dress and a man in a black tuxedo, lit by dramatic overhead spotlights and haze.

On a wooden stage before a red “School House” set, a man in cowboy costume kneels and gestures toward a woman in a pale dress while three other performers watch.

A western-costumed ensemble stands across the stage with arms raised in a big musical number, framed by smoky overhead beams and a schoolhouse set behind them.

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