Three performers are tightly framed in dark light, staring in different directions with worried expressions.

Jermyn Street Theatre2022

The Poison Belt

The Production

Arthur Conan Doyle’s apocalyptic science-fiction tale, adapted by the company for Jermyn Street Theatre’s Footprints Festival, follows Professor Challenger’s warning of a deadly gas cloud and a group trapped in one room with only enough oxygen until morning.

34 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Becca Chadder
Movement Director: Monica Nicolaides
Lighting Design: Simeon Miller
Costume Design: Jida Akil
Sound Design: Khalil Madovi
Photography: Steve Gregson

Three waistcoated performers stand on a blue-lit stage, with the central performer facing forward.

A performer in a green waistcoat adjusts small glasses against a black background.

A performer leans over a table holding a sheet of paper toward another performer in a green waistcoat.

Two performers examine a newspaper in a dark scene while another performer stands lit in the background.

A standing performer looks down at a seated performer under a tight pool of light.

Three performers crowd together and hold out a coloured sheet under cool overhead light.

A performer in an orange waistcoat gestures while speaking against a black brick wall.

Two performers strike exaggerated reaching poses in blue stage light.

Three performers sit close together on a wooden chest beneath a single overhead light.

Three seated performers react with tense expressions in a tight group.

Three performers sit together, with two turning toward the performer on the right.

Three performers move across a blue-lit stage framed by red vertical lights and scattered furniture.

A wide blue-lit scene shows one performer sitting on a chest while another crouches near the floor.

A performer in a blue waistcoat leans over a desk in deep blue light.

A performer in an orange waistcoat holds up a small vial beneath blue haze.

Three performers laugh or call out together under bright stage light.

Two performers in green and blue waistcoats stare forward in a tense close-up.

Three performers sit or stand among small wooden blocks under blue and red stage lighting.

One performer stands by a table while another lies on the floor in a wide blue-lit scene.

A performer smiles at a small table while another performer leans in from the side.

A seated performer gestures from a wooden box while two others sit apart behind them.

A performer in a blue waistcoat looks upward beside a vertical blue light.

One performer bends over a table while another sits on a wooden box under blue light.

Three performers stand shoulder to shoulder, looking outward with alert expressions.

A wide stage view shows a large pile of clothes and props spread across the floor as performers sit or stand around it.

A performer points across the stage beside a pile of clothes while two others watch.

A performer kneels and searches through a pile of clothes under blue light.

Three performers wear or hold goggles in front of their faces, lit by cool blue light.

Three performers stand near a pile of clothes and look back over their shoulders.

A performer in an orange waistcoat holds up a small vial while two others watch from behind.

Three performers hold small glasses to their faces beneath blue overhead lights.

Papers fly through the air above three performers on a blue-lit stage.

An empty black-box stage is lit by blue overhead light, vertical neon tubes and red footlights.

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