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![Saxby Hall](javascript:changephoto("/media/show_images/show_3/banner-1_icq4FoC.jpg", "Saxby Hall", "Staffordshire school - Formark where we had permission to film for sections of the show. The architecture of the school suggested the idea of using four towers to create the huge house of Saxby Hall. With the ability to move the towers with automation we were able to create many parts of the hall, as well as open them out to the extreme sides of the stage in order to create areas outside of the house."))
![Stella and Auntie on the roof.](javascript:changephoto("/media/show_images/show_3/1.jpg", "Stella and Auntie on the roof.", "Stella finally meets her aunt on the rooftop of Saxby Hall."))
![The Car Chase](javascript:changephoto("/media/show_images/show_3/2.jpg", "The Car Chase", "Stella and her ghostly friend Soot are chased to the frozen lake by Auntie."))
![Climbing the narrow passages of Saxby Hall](javascript:changephoto("/media/show_images/show_3/7.jpg", "Climbing the narrow passages of Saxby Hall", "Stella and Soot climb up the revolving towers of Saxby Hall."))
Awful Auntie
Birmingham Stage Company
Neal Foster
Awful Auntie adapted from the book by David Walliams. The set design emerged from David's vivid description of the secret passageways through Saxby Hall. Using automation for the movement on set of the Saxby Hall towers, we follow Stella's journey to the realisation of how evil her aunt really is. The set can move like the magic Harry potter chess pieces. The design influence a was Escher's never ending staircases. The set was built in Leeds by Qdivision who made a great job of the set automation.