A solitary vertical pole and a shadowed figure on a circular platform are silhouetted by amber backlight.

The Backstage Theatre, Mountview2025

The Chrysalids

The Production

Mountview’s MA Acting cohort presented David Harrower’s stage adaptation of John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids, set in a post-apocalyptic society enforcing absolute conformity.

10 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Shane Dempsey
Movement Director: Steve Brownlie
Lighting Design: Mark Dymock
Set & Costume Design: Nicolai Hart-Hansen
Sound Design: Beth Duke
Commissioned by: Mountview
Photography: Steve Gregson

A kneeling performer adjusts the face covering of a seated blindfolded figure on a circular platform.

A performer with a backpack stands on a blue circular platform as red papers fly through the air.

Performers stand on a circular platform beneath a moonlike globe and vivid coloured beams.

Masked figures in dark coats advance through blue haze on a circular stage with coloured backlight.

A woman in a patterned dress reaches toward a bald seated man in an intimate blue-lit scene.

A performer in a plaid skirt stands on a stump on a circular platform while another lies behind in coloured light.

Two performers lie on a blue circular platform in a wide, empty stage washed with moonlike light.

A young performer in a cap and striped jacket stands in blue-purple light with a bright orange glow behind.

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