A woman in black presses both hands to her head and looks sideways under warm light against a wood-panelled wall.

Omnibus Theatre2024

Scarlet Sunday

The Production

Aslant Theatre Company’s UK première of James Alston’s debut play Scarlet Sunday played at Omnibus Theatre in 2024. The two-hander explores the uneasy relationship between artistic legacy, celebrity and abuse through an art curator’s encounter with the daughter of a celebrated late artist.

23 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Imy Wyatt Corner
Lighting Design: Catja Hamilton
Set & Costume Design: Cat Fuller
Sound Design: Odinn Orn Hilmarsson
Photography: Steve Gregson

Two women sit across a white table in a rehearsal room, surrounded by chairs, reference pictures and practical room lighting.

A woman in a grey striped top faces another person in a close exchange, her expression concerned and attentive.

Two women face each other as one reaches out a hand while holding a yellow tote bag in the rehearsal space.

A woman in a grey striped top sits beside a blue-draped object with one hand at her ear, gazing upward.

Three women work in a rehearsal room as one kneels with a script and gestures toward a standing woman while a third sits behind them.

A woman in a black turtleneck holds a white mug and gestures with one hand in a warmly lit rehearsal room.

A woman in a grey striped top stands with a yellow tote bag, looking toward someone just out of focus in the foreground.

Two women look at a laptop on a table showing a performance video, with rehearsal images pinned on the wall behind them.

A woman in black holds a large pale blue cloth against wood panelling, her head thrown back in a dramatic gesture.

A woman leans forward with clasped hands at a table, focusing intently on another person in the foreground.

A woman in a grey striped top sits cross-legged on the floor beside a blue-draped object, speaking to someone in the foreground.

A seated woman with a script points forcefully across the rehearsal room while another woman stands in the background.

A woman sits at a white table smiling over a mug, with a floor lamp, wood panelling and green walls behind her.

A woman in black crouches on a black box and gestures toward a seated person blurred in the foreground.

A seated woman in a grey striped top looks up toward a dark foreground figure in the rehearsal room.

A woman lifts papers to her mouth with an anxious expression while another woman stands behind her.

A woman in a grey striped top stands against wood panelling, raising one finger as if making a point.

Two women move through a rehearsal-room doorway beside a wall of reference photographs, one reaching toward the door as the other turns back.

A red-haired woman seated with a notebook smiles warmly while holding a pen.

A woman crouches beside a black stage box and blue drape, bracing one hand against the set piece.

A woman in black smiles broadly while seated with papers, framed by two other women in the rehearsal room.

A woman in black peers intensely from beside a blue-draped object against a wood-panelled background.

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