Taking a break from the big secret project overseas, Rob has been back in the UK and has just lit the musical Betty Blue Eyes at Mountview’s new theatre in Peckham, south London.
The show is directed by Bruce Guthrie, for whom Rob lit City of Angels at the Royal Academy of Music last summer, and designed by Loren Elstein with costumes by Jennifer Gregory and sound design by Matt McKenzie.
This production also marks a very particular first: the first time Rob has lit a new production of a show where he was involved in the original production, having served as lighting programmer when the show premiered at the Novello Theatre in 2011.
Mountview’s production is smaller in scale, but arguably greater in charm.
Rob’s work was supported by a great lighting crew (production electrician Jess Pomeroy and her team of Kiri Baildson Smith, Ruth Endersby, Bill Traore, Sofie Mirza and Jahmal Swaby), great programmer (Imogen Clarke), plus Mountview’s team of production manager Davin Patrick, Alex Cann, Andie Dew and Robin Nash - and of course Mountview’s principal, Stephen Jameson, with whom Rob has worked all the way back to the play Groping For Trouts In Peculiar Rivers at the Battersea Arts Centre in 1993.
Betty Blue Eyes is playing now, and runs until Wednesday 12th February.