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Mission impossible? Turning fanciful visions into theatrical reality

Long ReadsApr 11, 2024
Erin Doherty and Sophie Melville in Wolfie, directed by Lisa Spirling, at Theatre503, 2019. Photo: Helen Murray
Erin Doherty and Sophie Melville in Wolfie, directed by Lisa Spirling, at Theatre503, 2019. Photo: Helen Murray
From crossing vast mountain ranges and committing brutal acts of violence, to conjuring life-sized tigers and going inside the human body, theatremakers have long attempted to stage the seemingly unstageable. Artists responsible for some of these onstage phenomena tell Lyn Gardner how they do it, and why, sometimes, doing more with less can be the most powerful solution

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