A shirtless bearded performer crouches in a warm pool of light, looking up at a silhouetted standing figure holding a watering can on a dark stage.

Rose Bruford Studios2023

ETA Dissertations

The Production

A presentation of practical dissertation and devised performance work by final-year European Theatre Arts students at Rose Bruford College. The work formed part of the course’s practice-research strand, foregrounding student-led theatre-making and performance outcomes.

20 photographs in the curated edit

Commissioned by: Rose Bruford College
Photography: Steve Gregson

A robed performer stands center stage with both hands raised under overhead spotlights, while another person sits watching at the side of the sparse black set.

A performer in a sheer white ruffled blouse, black athletic shorts, and knee supports leans forward under bright light, with blue circular projections behind them.

A robed performer stands with arms slightly outstretched as a strong green-yellow beam cuts across the dark stage, with small pots glowing near the floor.

Kneeling in a patterned robe, a performer lifts an orange plant pot high above their head against black curtains.

A shirtless performer pours water from a green watering can over another shirtless performer crouched on hands and knees on a dark wet platform.

Water streams from a green watering can as a crouching shirtless performer cups it toward their face in low, warm stage light.

Seen from behind, a shirtless performer kneels alone on a plastic-covered stage and raises clasped hands beneath green spotlights.

A mud-covered shirtless performer kneels on a wet platform reaching outward, while another shirtless performer moves in blue light on a separate platform behind.

A mud-covered shirtless performer crouches low on a wet, soil-covered platform, face tense in green and yellow stage light.

A performer stands at the center of a dark stage with arms raised as vivid green beams cross in large X shapes above the audience seated along the sides.

Two performers lie tangled on the floor beneath crossing green spotlights, with orange buckets, chairs, and a seated onlooker visible in the dim space.

Green stage light catches a performer holding an orange bucket, their face turned to the side in a dark, intimate space.

A blindfolded performer in a patterned robe bends forward, holding a glowing orange bucket that lights their face and hands.

Two robed performers face each other across a dim stage, one standing barefoot with a bucket and the other crouched low with a glowing bucket.

A performer in an ornate robe stands under twin spotlights with arms lifted, while another performer sits quietly in the background.

A performer in a heavy patterned robe leans out from black curtains, reaching toward the stage where orange buckets sit in low light.

A kneeling performer in a gold robe raises an orange bucket toward a standing performer, with another bucket on the floor and a seated figure in shadow.

A shirtless performer kneels on a small dark mound under a green overhead spotlight, surrounded by scattered fabric in the darkness.

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