View Festival 2023
View Festival 2023 is an exciting new theatre festival showcasing the work of 2023’s MA Creative Producing cohort. The festival celebrates a diverse offering of contemporary and devised work, and features many engaging events including poetry, music, talks, and games. Audiences can enjoy VIEW Festival 2023 both live and online, as many of the shows and events will be streamed.
Mountview (2023)
Event Designer - Lili Fuller Produced by Mountview’s 2023 MA Creative Producing Cohort Photography - Lilli Lehmann
As a part of VIEW Festival 2023, I designed 3 productions, Rain Weaver, Rosaline, and 12.
Rain Weaver
Oo has only one purpose in life: rain weaving… and mastering this new melody that keeps haunting her. When her powers get out of control, she is forced to leave everything behind. While Oo hopes to find a new home in a big water-scarce town, she is quickly met with prejudices and fear. Rejected, she embarks to fish the first star, but when the water stress becomes severe, the people realise that the woman they have scorned is the only one who can help them. Should Oo follow her heart or return to aid?
A new devised performance about self-worth, trust and finding a home – inspired by an ancient legend.
The Backstage Theatre (2023) Director - Apostolos Zografos
Costume Designer - Lili Fuller Composer - Maggie Yu Written and Produced by Lilli Lehmann Photography - Steve Glass
Rosaline
Rosaline is mentioned ten times in ‘Romeo and Juliet’. She doesn’t even get any lines. She doesn’t even appear on the stage. Yet she’s the reason that Romeo turns up to the fateful party that changes – and then cuts short – his life and that of Rosaline’s younger cousin. She’s had enough. Rosaline has lived many lives in many productions – from lowkey school plays to weird avant-garde interpretations – and the line between what’s real, what’s textual, and what isn’t has become blurred. She confides in the audience about everything she knows of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and her part in it, before making a choice about whether she will ever, or can ever, do anything about her place in history’s most tragic love story.
The Backstage Theatre (2023) Playwrite - Imogen Usherwood Director - Gráinne Robson
Set Designer - Lili Fuller Produced by Hannah Jayne Productions Photography - Steve Glass
12
Counting from 1-12 is the only thing that will save Mel’s mother, cure Mouth Cancer, and stop the Earth from crashing into the Sun, well according to Mel and their OCD. Mel tries to get through their day-to-day life working as a barista whilst their nosey regular – Marian – insists on being a constant in their life. Until a sudden event forces Mel to confront their endless cycle of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 and makes them doubt everything.
The Backstage Theatre (2023) Playwrite - Martha Ifan Director - Natalya Micic
Set and Costume Designer - Lili Fuller Produced by Aled Rosser Photography - Steve Gregson
