by Patrick Hamilton
Produced by Pymble Players
Directed by Joy Sweeney<

Venue: Pymble Players Theatre, Mona Vale Rd
Year: 2024

This classic Victorian thriller is the dark tale of a marriage based on deceit and trickery. Jack Manningham is slowly, deliberately, driving his gentle, devoted wife, Bella, to the brink of insanity with an insinuating kindness that masks more sinister motives. This play, which brought the term ‘gaslighting’ into the modern vocabulary, has some of the most suspenseful and heart-stopping scenes in modern theatre.

In the minimalist set designed by Joy Sweeney we used haze, tight lighting, flicker flame effects, side lighting, and the black and dusty brick walls of the old Pymble Players theatre on Mona Vale Rd as a cyc to create a dark mood to complient the production.

Role
Lighting.