Tay Bridge (2019)

Peter Arnott

Venue: Dundee Rep
Company: Dundee Rep Ensemble
Director: Andrew Panton
Designer: Emily James
Video Designer: Lewis den Hertog

Photos: Mihaela Bodlovic

the bridge still collapses [,,] in a viscerally impressive sequence of lighting and sound effects.

A polished, well-choreographed production that makes brilliant use of Emily James’s deceptively simple rail carriage set and beautifully intertwines the storytelling with Simon Wilkinson’s sepia-toned lighting

Allan Radcliffe, The Times

Its final cacophonous moments are a chilling masterclass in disaster movie style hysteria, in which the ghosts of the past are brought scarily close to home.

Neil Cooper, The Herald

Simon Wilkinson’s ominous lighting and MJ McCarthy’s rib-shaking sound design build to the closing moments when the inevitable ending gives shape and force to Arnott’s adventurous structure

Mark Fisher, The Guardian

the emotional palette conjured by lighting, sound and video gives the physically transporting effect of cinema

David Pollock, The Stage