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TIN SHED scenery An Evening with Primrose

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TIN SHED scenery builds for a wide variety of companies working in theatre, film, television, events, installations, exhibitions and schools.

WHAT IS TIN SHED?

TIN SHED consists of a group of talented freelancers who bring specific skills to each project to complement the core team, lead by James Lewis. This includes carpenters, metalworkers, scenic artists, electricians and many other very skilled people. We also have strong relationships with other technical companies who we will outsource work to when specific processes are needed.

We often work with companies from the initial ideas of a project through to the opening night; designing, building and occasionally touring the production. This helps in many ways but most importantly it gives us a complete understanding of the production and how the set design and construction fits into the show as a whole.

WHY USE TIN SHED?

Being part of the process from start to finish allows TIN SHED greater certainty in delivering the design and final product on time and on budget. The company has experience of the rigours of festivals and international touring and understands implicitly that the construction of a set is as important as the appearance.

WHERE ARE YOU?

Based just two minutes from junction 7 of the M3, near Basingstoke in Hampshire, we are ideally placed to work with a wide range of projects across the south and south west of England. Saying that, recent TIN SHED productions have been performed in London’s West End and other London venues, as well as venues in England, Scotland, Wales, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, New Zealand, Greece, Armenia and at The Sydney Opera House, Australia.

PORTFOLIO

**THE LORD OF THE RINGS**

**The Watermill Theatre, in association with Kevin Wallace for KWL & Middle-earth Enterprises present THE LORD OF THE RINGS - A Musical Tale**
**Based upon the books by J.R.R. Tolkien**
Book and lyrics by **Shaun McKenna** and **Matthew Warchus**
Music by **A.R. Rahman, Värttinä** and **Christopher Nightingale**
Directed by **Paul Hart**
Design by **Simon Kenny**
Production Manager **Nick Flintoff**
Musical Supervision and Orchestrations by **Mark Aspinall**
Choreography by **Anjali Mehra**
Projection Design by **George Reeve**
Lighting Design by **Rory Beaton**
Sound Design by **Adam Fisher**
Set Construction **TIN SHED scenery**
Additional outdoor scenic elements **DSH scenery**
Associate Directed by **Sibylla Archdale Kalid**
Puppet Design by **Charlie Tymms**
Puppetry Direction by **Ashleigh Cheadle**
Fight Director **Dani McCallum**
Photography by **Pamela Raith**
**Click here for cast list**

Notes from a Small Island

**By Bill Bryson**
**The Watermill Theatre** **in association with** **Simon Friend Entertainment**
Adapted by **Tim Whitnall**
Directed by **Paul Hart**
Designed by **Katie Lias**
Production Manager **Nick Flintoff**
Lighting Design by **Ali Hunter**
Sound Design by **Ed Lewis**
Projection Design by **George Reeve**
Assistant Director **Sibylla** **Archdale Kalid**
Photography by **Marc Brenner**
Click here for cast list

Rapunzel

**The Watermill Theatre**
Director **Lucy Betts**
Composer and Sound Designer **Tom Attwood**
Designer **Isobel Nicolson**
Lighting Designer **Alex Musgrave**
Movement Director **Adrian Quinton**
Production Manager **Nick Flintoff**
**Click here for cast list**

The Six of Calais & Ruth at Susie Sainsbury Theatre

**Pegasus Opera Company**
Libretto and Music by **Philip Hagemann**
Conductor **Avishka Edirisinghe**
Director **Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong**
Designer **Jida Akil**
Lighting designer **Chuma Emembolu**

Mansfield Park

**The Watermill Theatre**
Adaptors and Directors **Tonderai Munyevu** and **Arne Pohlmeier**
Designer **Louise Worrall**
Lighting Designer **Ciaran Cunningham**
Sound Designer and Composer **Holly Khan**
Movement Director **Gavin Vincent**
**Click here for cast list**

The Sleeping Sword

**The Watermill Theatre**
Adapted by **Tatty Hennessy**
From the novel by **Michael Morpurgo**
Cast **Aarian Mehrabani, Kirsty Ferriggi, Tika Mu’tamir**
Dramaturg / Access Consultant – **Amy Bethan Evans**
Lighting Designer – **Alex Musgrave**
Sound Designer – **Xavier Velastin**
Designer – **Louise Worrall**
Creative Captions Designer – **Douglas Baker**
Production photography – **Mark Senior**

The Toy Shop

**The Watermill Theatre**
By **Talitha Wing**
Directed by **The Watermill Outreach Department**
Designed by **Rebecca Lewis**

A Midsummer Nights Dream

**Reading Rep**
Written by **William Shakespeare**
Adapted & Co-Directed by **Paul Stacey**
Co-Director & Movement Director **Chris Cuming**
Associate Director **Christie O'Carroll**
Set and costume designer **Amy Watts**
Sound Designer & Composer **Joe Dines**
Lighting Designer **Simeon Miller**
Production Manager **Jordan Harris**
Photographs by **Harry Elletson**

Dorian

**Reading Rep**
Writer **Hoebe Eclair-Powell**
Writer And Director **Owen Horsley**
Designer **E.M. Parry**
Lighting Designer **Simeon Miller**
Sound Designer **Jasmin Kent Rodgman**
Costume Supervisor **Fran Levin**
Associate Lighting Designer **Adam Jefferys**
Stage Manager **Eleanor Walton**
Movement Director **Kloe Dean**
Assistant Director **Annie Kershaw**

Through the Looking Glass

Adapted by **Becca Chadder**
Directed by **Matty Green**
Designed by **Constance Villemot**
Assistant Directed by **Harriet Taylor**
Lighting Design by **Jack Evans**

The Trick

**by Eve Leigh**
Produced by HighTide and **Loose Tongue** in association with Bush Theatre
Director Roy Alexander Weise
Set & Costume Designer **Jemima Robinson**
Lighting Designer **Amy Mae**
Sound Designer **Odinn Orn Hilmarsson**
Production Manager **Steve Watling**
Photographer **Helen Murray**

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**Gyre & Gimble** **with** **Fuel** **in association with**
**Stratford Circus Arts Centre**
Written by **Carl Grose** Inspired by the urban myth
Directors **Finn Caldwell** & **Toby Olié**
Set & Costume Designer **Samuel Wyer**
Composer **Adam Pleeth**
Lighting Designer **Matt Daw**
Sound Designer **Alma Kelliher**
Puppet Design **Finn Caldwell** & **Toby Olié**
Puppet Fabrication **Stitches and Glue Ltd**
**Cast list here**

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**Bush Theatre**
Playwright **Sophie Wu**
Director **Mel Hillyard**
Designer **Lucy Sierra**
Movement Director **Carolina Valdés**
Sound Designer **Dominic Kennedy**
Lighting Designer **Rajiv Pattani**
Set Construction TIN SHED scenery
Photographs **Sam Taylor**
Cast **Joe Bannister**, **Amy Lennox**, **Ruby Bentall**

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Opera Up Close
Orchestrator **Alex Beetschen**
Librettist **Glyn Maxwell**
Musical Director **David Keefe**
Director **Valentina Ceschi**
Set and Costume Designer **Emma Bailey**
Lighting Designer **Zoe Spurr**
Production Manager **Stephen Harrison**
Pamina **Susie Buckle & Abigail Kelly**
Papageno **Peter Brathwaite & Tom Stoddart**
Queen of the Night **Fleur de Bray & Luci Briginshaw**
Papagena **Felicity Buckland & Rosie Middleton**
Sarastro **Julian Debreuil & Lancelot Nomura**
Tamino **Lawrence Olsworth-Peter & Peter Kirk**

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Bush Theatre
Playwright **Rajiv Joseph**
Director **Jamie Lloyd**
Designer **Soutra Gilmour**
Lighting Designer **Richard Howell**
Fight Director **Kate Waters**
Sound Design and Original Music **George Dennis**
Costume Supervisor Lydia C Crimp
Cast **Darren Kuppan**, **Danny Ashok**

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Farnham Maltings and Orange Tree Theatre
Written by **Zoe Cooper**
Director **Derek Bond**
Designer **James Perkins**
Lighting Designer **Sally Ferguson**
Cast **Nicola Coughlan**, **Rhys Isaac-Jones**

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Stevenage Museum
50 years after his death, Stevenage Arts Guild, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, celebrate the life and work of the town’s forgotten son who became a radical and visionary theatrical pioneer. This project culminated in the exhibition at Stevenage Museum opening , a new website and educational resources. The project was managed managed by Andy Purves.
The Projection space was designed by James Lewis and built by TIN SHED scenery.

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Produced by **The Science Museum**
Directed by **Martin Lamb**
Designed by **Janet Bird**
Set Construction **TIN SHED scenery**
Projection Design by **Nina Dunn**
Lighting by **Malcolm Rippeth**
Sound by **Sebastian Frost**
**The show ran at the Science museum for 6 weeks and was followed by a UK Tour.**

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Designed by **James Lewis**
Built by **TIN SHED scenery**
For **Hobbledown**

' A Place full of wonder, excitement and play where our friends, the Hobblers, spend their days around the fields and barns where animals roam content as always in their Hobbledown homes.'

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by **How It Ended**
Based on the book by **Emily Hughes**
Directed by **Eva Sampson**
Designed by **James Lewis**
Set Construction by **TIN SHED scenery**
Puppet Design and Made by **Andy Lawrence**
Music and Lyrics by **Darren Clark**
Dramaturg **Teresa Burns**
Originally Commissioned by Lyric Hammersmith, Watford Palace Theatre, Greenwich and Docklands International Festival and Latitude Festival.

The Emperor's new clothes — The Emperor's New Clothes

by **Stuff and Nonsense**
Directed by **Niki McCretton**
Performed by
Written by **Niki McCretton and the company**
Original Music by
Set Design by **Edwina Bridgeman**
Lighting Design by **Edmund Trotter**
Set Construction by **TIN SHED scenery**

An Evening with Primrose

Written & Directed by **Abigail Conway**
Sound and Interactive system design **Ross Flight**
Illustration and animation **Eoin Ryan**
Video Design **Dominic Baker & Oliver Levett**
Set Design **James Lewis**
Set Construction TIN SHED scenery
Lighting Design **James Lewis**
Producer **Sally Rose**

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**The Frequency D'ici**
Created by Jamie Wood, Sebastien Lawson and
Tom Frankland
Directed by **Jamie Wood**
Performed by **Sebastien Lawson** and **Tom Frankland**
Designed by **James Lewis**
Original Music by **A Sweet Niche**
Lighting Design by **Cis O’Boyle**
Sound Design by **Becky Smith**
Set Construction by **TIN SHED scenery**
Produced by **Ric Watts**

The Lost Letters of Mr.Corrigan

**Newbury Youth Theatre**
Devised by **The Company**
Directed by Tony and Amy Trigwell-Jones
Designed by **James Lewis**
Set Construction by **TIN SHED scenery**
Scenic Art by **Rebecca Glover**
Costumes by **Rhia Whitnell**
Photography by **David Hatfull**
NYT Company Director **Robin Strapp**

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**SECOND HAND DANCE**
Director and Choreographer **Rosie Heafford**
Performers **Keir Patrick, Darragh Butterworth & Ellen Slatkin**
Set and Costume Design **Verity Quinn**
Composers James Marples & Amir Shoenfeld
Lighting Design **Ben Pacey**
Dramaturg **Lou Cope**
Producer **Claire Summerfield at** **Tandem Works**
Production Manager **Helen Mugridge**

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**how it ended productions**

Written by **Teresa Burns**
Directed by **Eva Sampson**
Set Design by **James Lewis**
Set Construction by **TIN SHED scenery**
Lighting Design by **Tom Millington**
Original Music & Lyrics by **Darren Clark**
Performed by Helen Booth, Richard Kiess,
Eva Sampson, Peter Wicks

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Max **Tom Lyall**
Herman **Jamie Wood**
Set Designer **Janet Bird**
Lighting Designer **Guy Dickens**
Set Construction **TIN SHED scenery**
Production Manager **James Lewis**

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Written and performed by **scottee**
Directed by **Chris Goode**
Designed by **James Lewis**
Set Construction by **TIN SHED scenery**

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At the **Natural History Museum Darwin Centre**
Created by James Lewis and **Rebecca Glover**
In collaboration with **Brian Smith, Zoology Research Assistant NHM**
Supported by **Natural History Museum, Arts Council England, Arlington Arts Centre, Central Studio, Corn Exchange Newbury and Field Trip**.

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**Inspector Sands**

Inspector Sands are
**Ben Lewis, Giulia Innocenti, Lucinka Eisler**
Directed by **Lu Kemp**
Designed by **Jamie Vartan**
Lighting by **Hansjorg Schmidt**
Programmed by **Helen Mugridge**
Set Construction by **TIN SHED scenery**
Photos by **Ed Collier**

The Lounge

**Inspector Sands**
Inspector Sands are
**Ben Lewis, Giulia Innocenti, Lucinka Eisler**

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Newbury Youth Theatre

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Jamie Wilson Productions and Andy Barnes Ambassadors Theatre, London
Epsom Playhouse, Epsom
Written by
Directed by
Designed by **James Lewis**
Set Construction by **TIN SHED scenery**

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**debut theatre company**
By **Ciaran McConville**
Directed by Jamie Harper
Performed by Elizabeth Park
Designed by **James Lewis**
Lighting Designed by **Nick Flintoff**
Sound Designed by **Tom Gisby & Neil Townsend**
Set Construction by **TIN SHED scenery**
Scenic Art by Rebecca Glover
Photography by **Richard Ring**

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