“Set designer Jasmine Swan and lighting designer Zeynep Kepekli create a haunting world of decaying concrete and tangled roots: part prison, part graveyard, part memory. Buried beneath the surface await a chorus of imprisoned women. The women’s entwined tragedies unfold over themes of class and faith through folk, blues, and rock-inflected lullabies, work songs, and power ballads that root the production in the rich landscape of working-class womanhood.”
“Miranda Cromwell’s direction breathes life into the story, making full use of the space at the Kiln Theatre with an impressive set, designed by Jasmine Swan, that manages to be appropriately stark and atmospheric, yet never dull. ”
Coven: A Scorching New Musical based on England’s most notorious witch trails (Kiln Theatre)
Director Miranda Cromwell, set and costume designer Jasmine Swan, lighting designer Zeynep Kepekli, sound designer Helen Atkinson, music supervisor Jennifer Whyte, choreographer Shelley Maxwell, puppetry director Laura Cubitt, dramaturg Tom Wright, and voice coach Hazel Holder, puppet made by Little Angel Theatre.
Photographer: Marc Brenner