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![Backdrop for the set](javascript:changephoto("/media/show_images/show_44/IMG_246.jpg", "Backdrop for the set", "Abstract landscape texture for the backdrop to the set for Tom's Midnight Garden. Lighting by Jason Taylor, this backdrop created drama and colour for bleeding through the gauze set to the garden beyond."))
![Hatty](javascript:changephoto("/media/show_images/show_44/Hatty_TMG.jpg", "Hatty", "Hatty through the various stages of her life, child to adult. The final costume as a young woman was the same tone and colour to her younger days to keep her in a more ghostly palette of pale purples and blues."))
![Maid and Mum](javascript:changephoto("/media/show_images/show_44/Miad_and_Mum_TomMG.jpg", "Maid and Mum", "Again the actress playing Mum also played the maid in Victorian times. The palette is blues and greys to keep the Victorian characters as a group."))
![Tom and Edgar](javascript:changephoto("/media/show_images/show_44/Tom_and_Edgar.jpg", "Tom and Edgar", "Tom and his brother Edgar. Tom plays himself throughout the play whereas Edgar becomes one of Hatty's brothers."))
![Aunt Grace and Mrs Bartholemew](javascript:changephoto("/media/show_images/show_44/Aunt_Grace_and_Mrs_B_TMG.jpg", "Aunt Grace and Mrs Bartholemew", "Costume drawings. The actress payed both Mrs Bartholemew and Aunt Grace. Detailed drawings of the corset and bodice which was worn throughout and costume appropriate for the period added."))
![Uncle Alan and Abel](javascript:changephoto("/media/show_images/show_44/Uncle_Alan_and_Abel_TMG.jpg", "Uncle Alan and Abel", "The character playing Uncle Alan and plays the gardener Abel in Victorian times."))
![Texture for the floor and the trees](javascript:changephoto("/media/show_images/show_44/TMG_TREE_TEXTURE_copy.jpeg", "Texture for the floor and the trees", "The trees were spiral shapes with gauze supended and printed with this texture."))
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TOM'S MIDNIGHT GARDEN
Birmingham Stage Company
Graeme Messer
Birmingham Stage Company produced this play twice. Once directed by Graeme Messer and the second time more recently by Neal Foster. The set was approached in two very different ways. The first time a revolving corridor, like the hands of a clock rotated to create the different scenes. The actors could be seen walking down the corridor, one side of the corridor being the Victorian house, the other being the 1950s. The second time the set was a static spiral sculpture which had a gauze printed with a floral wallpaper. The interior was lit from the front to create the solid walls of the house. When lit upstage the walls became transparent which allowed the actors to use the whole stage for the garden.