An ensemble surrounds a lifted performer in a dramatic red-and-blue stage picture with a strong diagonal spotlight.

Backstage Theatre, Mountview, 120 Peckham Hill Street, London SE15 5JT2024

She Loves Me

The Production

Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts’ student production of She Loves Me was staged at the Backstage Theatre, Mountview, from 24 February to 2 March 2024. Performed by Mountview’s Musical Theatre students, the production set the classic romantic comedy musical amid the wit, romance and exuberant charm of 1930s Budapest.

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Director: Luke Fredericks
Musical Director: Richard Bates
Choreographer: Leanne Pinder
Lighting Design: Adam King
Set & Costume Design: Bob Sterrett
Sound Design: Justin Teasdale
Commissioned by: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Photography: Steve Gregson

A lone performer stands in a pool of blue light beneath a high white spotlight on a dark stage.

Performers in period costumes gesture animatedly in front of the Maraczek's shop set and glowing tiled columns.

A man and woman dance across the shop floor in warm golden light, her green skirt lifted in motion.

A woman in dark costume sits tensely beside a display counter, holding a small bottle under soft stage light.

A woman in black holds a small brown case close to her mouth while another performer sits blurred behind her.

A man stands high on a ladder under a warm spotlight as two women below look up toward him.

Umbrellas sweep through a blue and amber stage picture as an ensemble moves across the shop set.

A thick cloud of white smoke rolls across the stage between two performers framed by the shopfront columns.

A woman stands on a ladder above surrounding performers while blue light and smoke fill the stage.

Two performers sit at a small table in a narrow cone of light on an otherwise shadowed stage.

A woman in a peach dress sings near the front while another performer works at a counter behind her.

A woman in a pink coat stands by a coat stand beneath a hanging lamp in a wide pool of darkness.

A woman in a fur coat and a suited man smile with small drinks in hand in front of the shop set.

A woman wrapped in fur faces a suited man in a close, brightly coloured exchange.

A man in a waistcoat bends toward a woman's hand under turquoise columns and orange haze.

A man embraces a woman in a green dress from behind as warm haze glows above the shop set.

An ensemble gathers around the counter with raised arms under green, amber and pink beams, seen past a foreground figure.

A woman in a green dress gestures outward in blue light while a man stands dimly behind her.

A blue-lit empty stage recedes toward a bright doorway where small figures are glimpsed inside.

A woman in green stands centred under a white spotlight between two lit shop counters.

Two performers sit at a small table lit by a warm lamp, surrounded by deep darkness.

Performers occupy a red and blue cabaret-like scene with a central woman in black and a lamplit table to the side.

Two performers sit across a small table with a glowing lamp, wine bottle and glass between them.

A woman sits alone behind a lamplit table with a bottle and wine glass, her face coloured by red and blue light.

A silhouetted performer in a coat stands beneath a white spotlight between two glowing pink columns.

A sparse hospital-like scene shows a bed at centre stage with performers gathered nearby under cool overhead light.

Performers cluster around a counter in amber haze while a figure watches from the foreground.

A man in a green suit presents small purple flowers to a seated patient in a close, warmly lit exchange.

A busy hospital scene unfolds around a bed and desk under amber stage lights and glowing columns.

A woman in a blue uniform and a man in a green suit clasp hands and sing toward each other.

A solitary figure sits at a bed or table in a stark white spotlight on a large dark stage.

A woman in a robe stands on a bed with one arm raised into vivid magenta light.

A large ensemble forms a theatrical tableau under amber light, arranged low and high across the stage.

A man in an argyle vest reacts with his mouth open while a woman reaches toward his ear in a crowded scene.

An ensemble gathers around a chair as a woman stands elevated in a bright spotlight between amber columns.

Performers gesture around a clothesline of white items stretched across the shop set.

A group of performers crowd together at the edge of a curtain, faces turned outward in bright stage light.

A colourful wide view shows dancers and onlookers arranged around the shop floor with a dark foreground figure.

Two performers face each other in blue light beside a wall decorated with heart-shaped string lights.

A couple embrace at centre stage beneath blue light and falling specks, with a shadowed performer in the foreground.

Four performers stand smiling in a posed formation in front of the Maraczek's shop set.

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