A line of stockings hangs across the stage as a man in a red jacket pegs them up and visitors watch.

The Backstage Theatre, Mountview2026

Museum

The Production

Tina Howe's absurd comedy set on the final day of an exhibition in a major art gallery, as more than fifty eccentric visitors pass through, some captivated by the art and others barely noticing it. Performed by Mountview's acting students at The Backstage Theatre, Peckham.

36 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Alan Pearson
Lighting Design: Skylar Turnbull Hurd
Set & Costume Design: Elliott Squire
Sound Design: Rose Farbrother
Photography: Steve Gregson

A performer kneels between white plinths with arms outstretched in warm amber light as others stretch out around the space.

Wide view of the empty gallery set with rows of stockings hanging from the rig above white plinths and black benches.

A gallery guard in a peaked cap and pale blue shirt stands beside a wooden object mounted on a white wall.

A gallery guard in a peaked cap sits upright on a chair against a dark background, hands clasped.

Two visitors in hats face each other on a blue-lit stairwell.

A woman in a denim dress holds a gallery leaflet and stares ahead in astonishment.

A woman in a denim jacket gazes upward, hands pressed together beneath her chin, with stage lights behind her.

A small figure in denim reaches up towards rows of stockings hanging high above the stage.

A smiling woman in a denim jacket points eagerly across the gallery.

A red-haired man with a moustache and neckerchief looks directly ahead under warm light.

A woman in sunglasses, a long fur coat and green gloves gestures sharply beside a sculpture.

Two men, one in a corduroy jacket and one in a maroon shirt and scarf, clasp hands face to face.

A man in glasses grips the face of another man who leans back in a corduroy jacket.

A woman in a cream trench coat with a handbag reacts in open-mouthed surprise.

Wide view of a crowd of gallery visitors in varied costumes looking up and around the exhibition space.

Two women with long curly hair embrace, one smiling over the other's shoulder.

A woman with long curly hair clutches a small figurine to her chest, eyes closed.

A woman in a long cream dress and fringed shawl flings her arms wide, holding a figure aloft, as others react behind her.

A young woman in a green headband and patterned jumper looks up and smiles against a backdrop of bright stage lights.

Visitors scramble around an overturned wicker basket while one leans back on the floor in the middle of the gallery.

A gallery guard in a peaked cap sits on a chair, face crumpled with emotion and hands raised.

A woman with long curly hair leans in closely to examine a tall slender sculpture.

A man in a tweed jacket presses himself flat against a pale gallery wall.

The gallery bathed in amber light as performers move between plinths.

Performers huddle together on the floor reaching towards a sculpture in a pool of amber light.

A woman rests her chin on clasped hands, contemplating a pale figure sculpture on a plinth.

Three gallery guards in peaked caps and pale blue shirts stand side by side.

A gallery guard looks wide-eyed with surprise between two colleagues seen from behind.

A man in sunglasses and a red jacket hangs a garment on a line.

A woman in a red cardigan and white blouse frowns beside two figure sculptures.

Visitors pull at tangled stockings and fabric in a chaotic struggle across the gallery floor.

A bearded man in a flat cap and glasses looks off to one side with a faint smile.

A woman in a red coat throws up her hands at a man in a flat cap.

Two figures stand hand in hand with their backs to the camera, facing the gallery wall under bright lights.

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