lucy bradridge designer

Lucy graduated from the University of Leeds with honours in English Literature and Language. She has worked at the West Yorkshire Playhouse making set and props for several productions including Peter Pan and Théâtre de Complicité's Foe. She went on to the Central School of Speech and Drama, achieving distinction for her work as a designer on devised and collaborative theatre productions. Previous work includes Dip and Sally for Il Palchetto, an Italian schools tour; The Wizard of Oz with Dog Theatre New End, Hampstead; Life: A User's Manual at the Lyric Hammersmith and Dublin Festival; The Children of Lir with Commotion and A Tempest with Dance Unlimited. Recently she designed for Mel and Sue's Back To Our Roots national tour; Spymonkey's Stiff, touring to Brighton, London and Switzerland; and, of course, last year's Footlights tour show, Between A Rock And A Hard Place.

It's a pleasure to be invited back this year to work with a very talented Footlights cast and professional production team. Watching the material being devised really helped to develop visual ideas for the show. This year we are on board the flag-ship of the cruise line 'Stella Maris', an ocean liner comparable to the likes of the Queen Mary and the Aquitania! Built with no expense spared, to the highest standards of sea-worthiness and with some 3,857 rivets, the ship will carry you with us in complete luxury. The crew, when dressed immaculately in their distinctive white Stella Maris uniforms, will entertain you in vintage clothing left by previous passengers, as they celebrate the century in song.

Only a few odd requests this year... look out for the shapely legs kindly donated by Pretty Polly, the support tights specialists! Not to mention the dancing pants, thanks to Jockey Y Fronts. I'm sure you will enjoy the magical underwater scene extensively researched scuba-diving off the Thames Barrier Reef!

Bon Voyage Footlights 1999