A performer sits alone at a long table on a dark stage as artificial snow falls beside a white fridge and a window showing a snowy forest.

The Barn Theatre, Rose Bruford College2022

Fantasy is a place where it rains

The Production

Fantasy is a place where it rains was an original devised work in Rose Bruford College’s 2022 Alternative Dramaturgy Season, created by graduating BA (Hons) European Theatre Arts students in collaboration with design, lighting and stage-management students. Drawing on the ideas and methodologies of Tadeusz Kantor, the production combined surreal images with fragments of life, death and what happens in between.

34 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Lorenzo Montanini
Lighting Design: Lilli Fisher
Commissioned by: Rose Bruford College
Photography: Steve Gregson

A performer with white face makeup is curled upside down inside an open refrigerator, wearing turquoise trousers and brown heels.

Six performers pose clustered around a red sofa under blue stage beams, with a static-filled television and metal bed frame nearby.

A performer in a black sleeveless dress sits at a table, lighting a single candle on a small cake against a dark background.

An ensemble dances with raised arms through thick red, purple, green, and blue haze on a crowded theatrical stage.

A performer in a black dress sits on a red leather sofa, gesturing with one hand as a bright spotlight fans across the dark stage.

A performer in a black bodysuit holds a dramatic floor pose amid scattered white flakes, while another performer sings into a microphone in the background.

A bald performer in a dark shimmering top raises both hands behind a large window frame filled with a misty forest projection.

A seated performer in a black sequined top plays a brass instrument under red, pink, and teal stage lights, with a piano partly visible behind.

A performer plays an upright piano while another leans over its top, both lit by low blue, red, and teal spotlights.

Around a small draped table set with glasses, one performer hangs upside down from a chair in a pale mask while three others sit nearby under blue-purple stage light, with an open glowing fridge at the side.

Four performers crowd closely around a seated performer whose face and hands are smeared with food, a small lit candle burning on a plate in front of them.

Five barefoot performers lie limp and overlapping across a red sofa in blue and magenta beams, with a static-filled television and room dividers beside them.

A wide red-lit stage shows several performers scattered across a messy floor of debris, with televisions, a fridge, room dividers, and a window-like screen showing fiery imagery.

A shirtless performer wearing a pale mask rises from a bathtub with both arms lifted, isolated in deep blue light beside a fabric room divider.

Three performers stand apart covering their faces with their hands before a projected snowy forest window, framed by red and blue stage lighting.

A bald performer plays a trumpet with one booted foot on a red sofa while another performer sits nearby, surrounded by hazy blue light and scattered domestic set pieces.

At a small table, a bearded performer leans toward a suspended microphone while another sits opposite with cups and a red candle, as a bald performer stands behind holding a branch.

Six performers gather around a standing performer who raises a dark object overhead, all looking up in tense magenta and blue light beside red room dividers.

On a red sofa, one performer hangs upside down with a pale mask while another sits slumped beside them, lit by a strong blue beam and the glow of a television.

A performer in a black dress sits alone at a dark table with a plate of food, lit by a narrow blue beam beside a candle and bottle.

Under bright colored stage lights, performers gather around a red leather sofa, with one playing trumpet and another seated on the floor beside a glowing television.

A performer lies flat on a snow-dusted stage beneath a projected rain-streaked forest window, surrounded by scattered props and pink-blue lighting.

In red haze, a performer grins while draped over a red leather sofa as others move around screens and fabric behind her.

Four performers pose around a red leather sofa and glowing television, all reaching upward toward a strong side spotlight.

Red and blue light washes the stage as one performer kneels over another near the sofa, with a third figure standing in the smoky background.

Artificial snow falls as a performer stands foreground in a green shirt, while two others sit at a table in a cool blue beam.

A group of performers crowd together in dramatic poses, holding bras and clothing under purple-red stage lighting beside a glowing television.

A performer in dark clothing stands in low light holding a pale mask and a bundle of bare branches near blue folding screens.

Three performers stand over a fourth collapsed face-down on a table, their gestures theatrical and intense in dim blue light.

A man in a dark suit stands tense in the foreground while other performers gather across a cluttered, dimly lit stage with a glowing rainy window backdrop.

A performer in a white shirt and black dress lunges across a powder-covered floor between a bathtub, fridge and table, with singers at microphones under red and blue stage lights.

Six performers sit and perch closely together on a red leather sofa, staring outward in still, serious poses under purple and pink theatrical lighting.

Performers crouch and lie among overturned chairs, a table, scattered powder and branches, while another figure appears behind a rain-streaked window in blue-purple light.

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