The Beautiful Future is Coming
Bristol Old Vic
Writer Flora Wilson Brown
Director Nancy Medina
Set & Costume Designer Aldo Vázquez
Lighting Designer Ryan Day
Sound Designer Elena Pena
Composer Femi Temowo
Casting Director Sam Jones CDG
Assistant Director Ignė Barkauskaitė
Intimacy Director Lex Kaby
Dramaturg Ben Atterbury
Producer Ruby Gilmore
Production Manager Aled Thomas
Company Manager Lucy Topham
Stage Manager Eve Richardson
Deputy Stage Manager Karen Habens
Assistant Stage Manager Mim Evison
Production Electrician Mike Gunning
LX Programmer Natalia Chan
LX Technicians James Harrison, George Bryant
Photographer Ellie Kurttz
Ryan Day’s lighting and Elena Peña’s sound design, in particular, successfully bind the play’s expansive time frame within single and often striking stage images. - The Guardian
Ryan Day’s precise lighting bleeding different time aesthetics together. - What’s On Stage
The stage seems to shimmer with falling rain, as Ryan Day’s lights play off Aldo Vázquez’s set: a mirrored floor creates puddles; three tall metallic screens give the impression of sheets of water – in the course of the action, lights and screens, sound and music, effectively shape multiple moods and settings. - The Observer