Hamlet
Minerva Theatre Chichester
Writer William Shakespeare
Director Justin Audibert
Set & Costume Designer Lily Arnold
Lighting Designer Ryan Day
Composer Jonathan Girling
Sound Designer Ed Clarke
Movement Director Lucy Cullingford
Fight Director Cristian Cardenas
Casting Director Matilda James CDG
Voice and Dialect Stephen Kemble
Assistant Director Becca Chadder
Producer Amelia Ferrand-Rook
Production Manager John Page
Company Manager Suzi Blakey
Deputy Stage Manager Rob Le Maistre
Assistant Stage Manager Roma Radford
Production Electrician Graham Taylor
LX Programmer Andrew Leighton & Joe Bloodworth
LX Technicians Steph, Finn, Dom
LX Hires Christielites
Photographer Ellie Kurttz
The lighting design is beautiful - soft orange glow bulbs hung above the audience, bringing us from time to time out of darkness or flicker with the ghost’s arrival - dragging you into their world and providing contrast to the cold stage lighting whose most prominent stylistic choice is a circle of lights that fall on the centre and often isolate speakers like a light from heaven. - Theatre and Tonic
A gorgeously moody lighting design by Ryan Day keeps the stage in almost total darkness, alleviated only by the flicker of candles, a copper-coloured glow that swells and fades, and occasionally, the shocking blaze of warm dazzlers that flare like jets of flame. - The Stage
If the Minerva’s intimate dimensions help to draw the audience into the intrigue, Ryan Day’s stunning lighting design leaves the actors soaked in ominous shadows. Terera lurks in a dark corner in his opening scene. - The Times
Ryan Day’s lighting takes its cue from Hamlet’s “inky cloak”: the prince is one of many figures glimpsed in the darkness - The Guardian
A gentle but brooding underscore by Jonathan Girling gives the atmospherics of Ryan Day’s dark lighting design a nice timbre. - Whatsonstage
Lit atmospherically by Ryan Day (there’s mists), the stage below is often tenebrously lit with candlelight - Fringe Review
Ryan Day’s lighting plays a large part in this production, creating shadows where watchers lurk, especially pertinent when we can see Hamlet, burning with murderess intent, in the shadows watching his mother, Gertrude, crown uncle Claudius as King. - British Theatre Guide
Lighting by Ryan Day is often billowy fog through which a truly solid corporeal Ghost (Geoff Aymer doubling as Player King as is the norm) melts in and out. Like everybody else, Day is driven by the text. As the Ghost speaks of his fear of light from glow-worms, the set is suffused with tiny red aluminized reflectors. - Plays International
Ryan Day’s lighting help to create atmosphere. - Theatre South East
