Beauty Queen of Leenane — Jessie Addinall Lighting Design

Beauty Queen of Leenane

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Hull Truck Theatre & Queens Theatre Hornchurch

October 2019

DIRECTOR: Mark Babych

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Maureen Lennon

SET / COSTUME DESIGNER: Sara Perks

LIGHTING DESIGNER: Jessie Addinall

PRODUCED BY: Hull Truck Theatre & Queens Theatre Hornchurch

PHOTO CREDIT: Ian Hodgson

“…though beyond the walls all is dark, in Jess Addinall’s moody lighting design. (There is an interview with young [Mx] Addinall, who started as a temporary technician at Hull Truck, which shines a light !! on [their] work and ambitions)”

— At Home He Feels Like a Tourist

“Jess Addinall’s lighting helps to emphasise the rain streaming down and Adam McCready’s sound brings the wail of the winds (and, quite possibly, banshees) to the cottage.”

— The Reviewers Hub

“…reinforced in Sara Perks’ creative, detailed set, with the thick, cut-down walls revealing the wide, open sky, and Jess Addinall’s dramatic lighting design”

— Spy in the stalls

“The space is filled with vital minutiae, arrestingly backlit in turn with rainfall, dusk and dawn. […] Lighting by Jess Addinall sits comfortably in a daylight wash for the majority, adding weight to the few moments in which it subtly shifts into narrow spots to highlight gaunt, yellowed moments of sincere dread”