Performers run or turn through a room covered in bright rectangular light patterns from overhead haze.

Guildford School of Acting, Guildford2024

Middletown

The Production

Guildford School of Acting’s November 2024 staging of Will Eno’s Middletown presented the playwright’s humane, off-kilter portrait of ordinary American town life. This student production formed part of GSA’s actor-training performance work in Guildford.

43 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Maisie Newman
Sound Design: Johnny Edwards
Commissioned by: Guildford School of Acting
Photography: Steve Gregson

The empty stage glows in red and blue, with glass doors at the far end and overhead lights visible above.

A young performer with glasses speaks or sings into a microphone while holding books in blue light.

A lone performer stands in a white spotlight within an otherwise saturated red stage.

A lone performer sits in a chair inside a blue-lit room seen through black-framed glass panels.

A performer in a dark suit sings into a microphone while red-lit masked figures move behind them.

A standing speaker and a seated performer occupy separate pools of light before glass rooms and starry projections.

A seated performer leans close to a glowing table lamp in a blue-lit interior.

A wide red-lit stage frames two performers at a microphone in front of an illuminated glass-fronted room.

A technician in glasses is lit by a control screen while focusing on equipment in the dark.

Two performers embrace on a hospital bed in a softly lit clinical room.

A moving figure crosses a warm foreground in front of a glass room containing a seated group.

A performer sings upward into a microphone beneath a narrow blue overhead beam against blackness.

A seated young performer with glasses listens as a beanie-wearing performer gestures in close conversation.

A red-suited performer dances beneath a bright cone of light and speckled projections across the set.

A wide hospital scene sits beneath converging white beams, with a bed centered and performers spaced across the set.

A performer in a white cap reads from a paper at a microphone under warm side lighting.

A performer holding a helmet sings in the dark foreground while action continues inside illuminated rooms behind them.

A red-lit hospital scene shows a standing figure in a white coat watching a person seated beneath a sheet on a bed.

A young person wearing a headset stands in sharp foreground while other performers gather blurred behind them.

A red-suited performer lifts a helmet above their head while standing on a glowing square platform.

A curly-haired woman smiles toward the audience as another performer stands blurred behind her in blue light.

An ensemble spreads across the set under a bright overhead light and speckled projections, with a central performer at a microphone.

An isolated performer stands behind black-framed glass in a dim room with a lamp and covered furniture.

A performer in a white coat sits beside a patient in a hospital bed under bright clinical light.

An ensemble bends and lunges in saturated red light around central figures on the set.

A line of red-suited performers raises their arms, casting tall shadows across a blue-lit wall.

A performer sings into a microphone within a tight pool of white light on an otherwise dark stage.

A person in a bright pink feathered costume has their lipstick adjusted by someone in a yellow coat.

A patient sits upright on a hospital bed at center stage, with figures visible in blue-lit rooms behind.

A red-suited performer strides across the blue-lit stage between two others near the glass frontage.

A performer in pink stands before a glass wall while a blue-clad figure’s lamp glows behind them, throwing shadows.

Two performers lean toward each other in a tense close confrontation against a pale wall.

A red-suited performer kneels alone in a purple-blue pool of projected light with a dark ensemble at the side.

Several performers crouch or crawl on the floor outside an illuminated glass-fronted room in blue-purple light.

A person in a hospital gown stands at a microphone while a uniformed performer adjusts or holds them from behind.

Seen through black panels, one performer tends to another seated on a chair in a stark lit room.

A wide blue-lit stage shows one performer at a microphone and another seated to the side near the glass room.

A uniformed performer sings into a microphone while holding a bright blue stage light toward the audience.

A tall figure with an oversized round head stands beside a hospital bed on a pale stage.

A uniformed cleaner mops near blue-framed panels while two seated performers lean together in the background.

A red-suited performer stands on a glowing cube platform with a helmet as others watch from the dim stage.

A lighting or sound operator works at a control desk with screens and stage lights glowing nearby.

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