A blue-lit body lies in the foreground while a silhouetted figure stands in a red doorway beneath a vertical amber beam.

PATS Studio Theatre, University of Surrey, Stag Hill Campus2023

Journey's End

The Production

Guildford School of Acting’s November 2023 production of Journey’s End featured BA Acting final-year students working in collaboration with BA Theatre Production and MA Stage Management students. Staged at the PATS Studio Theatre, it presented R.C. Sherriff’s First World War drama within GSA’s student production season.

46 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Jack Bradfield
Lighting Design: Mattis Larsen
Set & Costume Design: Tara Usher
Sound Design: David Lewington
Commissioned by: Guildford School of Acting
Photography: Steve Gregson

A wide view shows performers scattered across a black chalk-covered room under a cone of overhead light.

A barefoot man kneels on the chalk-marked floor of a dark, black-walled room.

A man in a white shirt leans sharply through a black doorway with one hand raised.

Two barefoot men stand beneath a chalk duty roll on the black wall, one holding chalk.

A performer crouches low alone in a drawn corner on the chalky stage.

A man in blue reaches upward in the foreground while a man in white watches beside him.

A man sits cross-legged inside a chalk circle with his head bowed and chalk in his hands.

A man in a red shirt holds chalk near his face against a softly marked black wall.

Blue and magenta light wash a wide stage where a body lies prone at centre and others stand or sit around the edges.

A tall man in blue leans toward a man in white, with a seated figure blurred behind them.

A solitary barefoot man sits against the wall looking up at chalk symbols.

A red-shirted man speaks close to a taller grey-shirted man, his hands caught mid-gesture.

Two figures stand apart in a wide chalk-covered room while others sit or crouch at the sides.

A red-shirted man touches the shoulder of a man in white against a wall covered in chalk writing.

A grey-shirted man faces chalk writing as his shadow falls clearly across the wall.

A red-shirted man leans over a seated man in white, his hand near the other man’s forehead.

A man in white stands in a central chalk circle beneath a spotlight while others remain low at the sides.

Blue light and haze fill a wide chalk-covered room with isolated figures spread across the stage.

From a blue-lit corner angle, one man stands near centre while others sit or crouch at the edges.

A red-shirted man stands above a crouched man in dark clothing within a narrow amber pool of light.

A grey-shirted man smiles toward another performer in the foreground.

A man in white writes high on a chalk-covered wall, his body close to the surface.

A seated man looks upward at a wall filled with chalk symbols and drawings.

Three men in military-green clothing crowd into a tense confrontation near a short set of steps.

A seated man in white clutches chalk near his chest and looks anxiously outward.

A red-shirted man kneels and touches fingertips with a standing man in a white apron.

In blue light, performers move separately across the room while one crawls through the central beam.

A grey-shirted man writes on a side wall among large chalk scrawls in warm light.

Performers crouch and tangle on the floor while others write on the walls in warm, busy stage light.

A red-shirted man holds chalk beside a seated man in white who smiles, with another figure curled behind them.

A red-shirted man crawls low across the chalked floor as another performer curls in the background.

A red-shirted man raises chalk beside a blue-shirted man, both seated before large chalk scribbles.

A red-shirted man raises chalk over a prone man in white lying near a doorway.

A red-shirted man stands alone before graffiti-like chalk marks, staring ahead.

A red-shirted man sits in the foreground while a grey-shirted man stands and another performer writes near a blue doorway.

Several bodies lie prone across the floor of the chalk-covered room under beams of light and haze.

A man lies curled tightly on the floor against a black wall beside a small piece of chalk.

A red-shirted man sits slumped in a corner beneath large chalk writing.

A central standing figure is held in a yellow spotlight, with a red-shirted figure at the side and chalk walls around them.

A red-shirted man stands under dim overhead light before steps and dense chalk text.

A red-shirted man crawls toward the front through a narrow spotlight on a smoky stage.

A red-shirted man bends over a prone man, gripping him at the chest under stark light.

A red-shirted man walks away from a prone body through smoke beneath a white overhead beam.

A red-shirted man faces a bright doorway while a prone body lies across the foreground.

A prone body lies under a vertical shaft of amber light with a red-lit figure framed in the distant doorway.

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