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The Toxic Avenger                                                                       

Southwark Playhouse & Arts Theatre 

Joe DoPetro & David Bryan

Director

BENJI SPERRING

Production Design

MIKE LEES

Lighting Design

NIC FARMEN


Off-West End Awards finalist for Best Design & Costume

Mike lees’ design is particularly impressive for a theatre as small as the Southwark playhouse

Andrew Tomlins 4*  west end frame

 

The set and props have this cheap , almost dirty but obviously perfect style…in short it looks exactly as a troma production should look!

Wightblood.blogspot

 

A pure visual delight of trashy b-movie costumes and references

Theatre passion

 

In the designs, Mike Lee's nuclear waste barrels adorn the stage and bubble nasty-looking green gloop while Nic Farman's lighting bathes everything in a sickly bright purple and green sheen. There's a lovely scrappy sense about the whole thing.

Whats on stage

 

Mike Lees’ ingenious composite set consists of towering vats of ominously glowing waste beneath a familiar Manhattan skyline. His B-movie prosthetics are complemented by lightening-fast changes of  costumes

The Stage

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