Red haze floods the stage as prone bodies lie in the beams beneath the glowing Emergency sign.

Backstage Theatre, Mountview2024

Image of an Unknown Young Woman

The Production

Mountview’s Summer Season 2024 production of Elinor Cook’s political thriller was performed by the academy’s Musical Theatre students at the Backstage Theatre. The production traces the revolutionary aftershocks of a circulated image of a woman in a yellow dress, staged as a taut contemporary ensemble piece.

42 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Connie Treves
Lighting Design: Peter Harrison
Set & Costume Design: Anna Kelsey
Sound Design: Eleanor Isherwood
Commissioned by: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Photography: Steve Gregson

A young woman at a lit control desk studies paperwork beside monitors and a sound or lighting console.

A performer in yellow raises an arm in a pool of white light on a dark stage beneath sharp overhead beams.

A young woman in dark clothing faces forward tensely, framed past a blurred figure and stage steps.

Performers leap and pose across a blue and orange-lit stage beneath the Emergency sign.

A performer in a yellow vest gestures with papers while a sharp beam of light cuts across the turquoise drape behind.

A solitary performer stands at a microphone on a red-lit stage beneath the Emergency sign.

A close, tense moment shows a young woman and man facing each other against a dark background.

A wide stage with turquoise curtains shows a lone figure standing center as others crouch near the edges under smoky lights.

A man in a plaid shirt holds a phone and looks offstage in warm backlight.

A suited performer at a central microphone faces two dark-clad figures under stark white beams.

From a low angle, a suited performer with a red tie gestures beside a microphone as another person stands behind.

A young man and woman sit close together on the floor in blue stage light, focused on something off frame.

An almost empty red-lit stage glows with low beams while figures crouch at the far edges.

A woman stands alone in front of a turquoise curtain, her shadow stretched by golden side lights and haze.

A girl in school uniform lifts papers above her head in cool blue light.

Two young women sit close together reading papers, one gesturing as the other looks ahead intensely.

A student in a skirt stands centered on an open stage while others sit or crouch at the sides under smoky light.

A man sits slumped in the foreground beside the stage edge while a woman stands in light near a chair behind him.

A technician works at a control desk in blue light, with small monitors glowing beside her.

Two women face each other across bed and chair props on a wide stage, one holding out a sheet of paper.

A school-uniformed girl clutches papers near a turquoise curtain, looking upward as her shadow falls behind.

Several performers form a warm stage tableau around the playing area under red and amber lights.

A school-uniformed girl stands over crouched performers holding yellow papers in smoky amber light.

A lone figure stands in deep blue side light near hanging curtains and a small floor lamp.

A man in a plaid shirt looks upward in close portrait, isolated against black with soft warm light.

A very wide stage composition places two separated figures under crossing spotlights.

A woman in a cream sweater holds a phone to her ear, her face caught in a tight pool of light.

A wide view of the stage and empty audience chairs shows two performers separated under a row of bright backlights.

Two performers stand close together carrying blue plastic bags, their faces tilted under a hard overhead light.

Under blue light, several dark-clad figures cluster around a person on the floor while another sits nearby with a small box.

A solitary figure stands centered in red haze, framed by low red beams and the Emergency sign.

A distressed young woman holds a phone to her ear in close-up, lit by cool and warm stage light.

An ensemble fills a chalk-marked stage with scattered props and yellow papers under mixed amber and white lights.

Several performers crowd low to the floor around another performer, creating a tense physical struggle.

A performer holds a teal cloth in their mouth under warm pink light.

A young woman in a white Adidas sweatshirt stands before a turquoise curtain in warm side light, her shadow behind her.

In a wide warm stage view, a performer at left raises an object toward two others under orange and white beams.

A performer stands by a microphone as another bends over a small table scattered with yellow objects.

A woman sits on the floor with a phone to her ear while another performer sits distant in a narrow spotlight.

A cool blue wide shot shows a person lying on a bed or mattress while another sits nearby under overhead beams.

A woman in a yellow dress stands with arms outstretched in front of blazing warm lights while another performer lies on the floor.

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