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Foxton
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Member Of: SBTD
Foxton has designed over 200 productions for theatres and companies throughout the country including Bolton Octagon, The Crucible, Oh What a Lovely War; Oldham Coliseum Chicago, Blonde Bombshells of 1943; Liverpool Royal Court, Maggie May, Noises off; York Theatre Royal, Neville's Island, All my Sons; Harrogate Theatre, Aladdin, The Rise and fall of Little Voice; Hull Truck Toast,

Under the Whaleback; West Yorkshire Playhouse, Kvetch; Bath Theatre Royal, Office Suite; Mercury Theatre Colchester, The Winter’s Tale, Garage Band; New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich, And then the Dark, The Price; Manchester Library Theatre, Death of a Salesman; Salisbury Playhouse, Equus, Macbeth; Watford Palace Theatre, Blue Orange, The Country Wife; Theatre Royal Stratford East, Takeaway; John Godber Co, Scary Bikers; Lipservice, Desperate to be Doris; Sheffield Theatres, Brassed Off; The Future is Unwritten “England Away”; Queens Theatre Hornchurch, Wildspark; Georgian Theatre Royal Richmond & Contact Theatre , Manchester.

Image credit: Mike Kwasniak

Featured Work

The Ladykillers

Role/Title: Designer
Year of Production Opening: 2017
Venue: New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich/Salisbury Playhouse/Queens Theatre Hornchurch
Mike Kwasniak
Image Credit - Mike Kwasniak
The stage adaptation of The Ladykillers utlised a revolve on which I created the whole of Mrs Wilberforce's house which folded out as it revolved. This also included a billboard style map of the robbery in the story which was played out with mechanical tinplate clockwork toy style 3D animation to a stylised cartoon soundtrack.  

There was also the railway line beyond including a signal which the Professor hung from by his scarf before his final demise on the railway line. I was inspired by Ronald Searle’s spidery cartoon style – the detail/wallpaper patterns were all drawn freehand onto the set.


PRODUCTION CREDITS

Lighting Designer: Alex Stafford Marshall
Sound Designer: Rebecca Applin
Director: Peter Rowe
Writer: Graham Linehan
Composer: Rebecca Applin
Photographer: Mike Kwasniak
Fight Director: Bret Yount