Janet Bird
rock/paper/scissors
by Chris Bush
Sheffield Theatres
2022
paper at Sheffield Lyceuem
credits:
Director ROBERT HASTIE Design JANET BIRD
Lighting Johanna Town, Composer Richard Taylor, Sound Sam Glossop, Movement director Tom Herron, Casting director Christopher Worrall, Assistant directors Callum Berridge
Production Management Luke Child, Costume Supervisor Merle Richards Wright, Props Buyer Jemma Gardner, Set Build Visual Scene
Photography JOHAN PERSSON
reviews
Chris Bush’s audacious production, performed simultaneously by the same cast across three theatres, intertwines comedy, romance and political rage to dazzling effect
The Guardian 4*
Janet Bird’s fabulous set has his office stuffed with a typical, profuse clutter of decades past, an authentic jumble of boxes, box files, loo-rolls, lamps, hoover and discarded bric-a-brac that almost buries the desks. Wonderfully, sheets of paperwork dangle, twirling to infinity and beyond through the space above the set
Mature Times
Again the set is superb, Janet Bird cramming the factory office with boxes, files, toilet rolls, a Henry cleaner and every other odd bit of detritus you could think of.
Whatsonstage 4*
Robert Hastie's direction of Paper leans much more into realism, which is aided by Janet Bird's equally impressive and detailed design.
West end Best friend 4*
