A blog for the latest theatre, music, dance and performance photography from Andrew Billington - live performance photographer based in Staffordshire and photographing across the UK.
Alice in Wonderland - New Vic Theatre 2022
Revisit the greatest children’s story of all time this Christmas, and join us as we take a trip to Wonderland!
Journey with Alice as she follows the White Rabbit into a curiously enchanting new world, filled with even curioser characters.
By Lewis Carroll
Adapted and directed by Theresa Heskins
Revisit the greatest children’s story of all time this Christmas, and join us as we take a trip to Wonderland!
Journey with Alice as she follows the White Rabbit into a curiously enchanting new world, filled with even curioser characters.
As she searches for a way home, Alice encounters strange and whimsical people: a disappearing cat with a grin wider than she’s ever seen, a Mad Hatter whose tea party never quite serves tea, and a bad tempered Queen who is looking for her jam tarts…
An adventure like no other, Alice In Wonderland is filled with fun, laughter and lots of magical moments. Brought to life in the New Vic’s sensational trademark style, this is a story that will give the young – and young at heart – a joyful festive treat this year!
It was great to photograph this production again (I photographed it first in 2011)
Beauty and the Beast - Key Theatre - Panto
Beauty & the Beast
Peterborough's longest running traditional family pantomime
Join us for a brand new panto written for the Key Theatre by Simon Egerton.
This year it's Beauty & the Beast: the story of a young woman who is caught up in a handsome chevalier's struggle to defeat an evil Wolf Queen's curse.
Prince & The Pauper - NVT - December 19
Prince and the Pauper
By Mark Twain
Adapted and directed by Theresa Heskins
Classic stories, spectacular adventures and lots of fun are the hallmarks of a New Vic Christmas show, and this year will be no exception! Bringing together the same creative team who brought to life our adaptations of The Borrowers, Treasure Island and the UK Theatre Award-winning The Snow Queen, this year we bring to life another classic adventure story in our stunning trademark style!
Prepare for a tale full of heart, filled with imaginative storytelling, live music, humour, puppetry and festive magic as we stage a brand new adaptation of The Prince and The Pauper.
Join us and be enchanted by this story of a chance meeting between two people, which might just change their lives….and the lives of everyone around them.
The Snow Queen : New Vic Theatre
I had the chance to photograph this gorgeous adaptation of 'The Snow Queen' at The New Vic Theatre in Newcastle-under-lyme at the end of November. It's a classic Christmas show and visually a joy to photograph.
I had the chance to photograph this gorgeous adaptation of 'The Snow Queen' at The New Vic Theatre in Newcastle-under-lyme at the end of November. It's a classic Christmas show and visually a joy to photograph.
This week's Guardian as well as running the photos made it the number one show to see in the UK - great stuff:
"The Guardian - Friday Dec 16th 2016
1. The Snow Queen
Once again, Theresa Heskins delivers a wonderful festive show. This tale of friendship, self-sacrifice and adventure should thaw the most wintry of hearts as Gerda sets out to save her friend Kai from the clutches of the icy Snow Queen, with Heskins drawing as much on Dickens as she does on Hans Christian Andersen’s original tale." - Lyn Gardner
Theatre Photography : Treasure Island - Hull Truck Theatre
This year's Christmas show at Hull Truck Theatre is a great adaptation of Treasure Island. Hull Truck have started a great tradition of presenting a play for children rather than a pantomime over the festive season and this production is certainly continuing that.
This year's Christmas show at Hull Truck Theatre is a great adaptation of Treasure Island. Hull Truck have started a great tradition of presenting a play for children rather than a pantomime over the festive season and this production is certainly continuing that.
A great revolving set forms the backdrop for a capsule company presenting this great tale of adventure.
Have a peek at some of my production photography from this fun, colourful and exciting show.
Rehearsal Photography - The Snow Queen - New Vic Theatre
This is some rehearsal photography from last week of 'The Snow Queen' at the New Vic Theatre in Staffordshire.
I'll be returning at the end of the month to photograph the dress rehearsal, and if the rehearsals are anything to go by it looks like it's going to be a corker!
Theatre Photography : New Vic Theatre - Talent
Last night I photographed the Dress Rehearsal for the New Vic Theatre's latest offering Victoria Wood's 1978 play 'Talent'. Performed in the round by a cast of five.
From Wikipedia:
Talent centres around two friends, the plain, overweight Maureen, and her more glamorous friend Julie, who has entered a talent contest. According to Screenonline:
"Julie is one of the hopefuls - a 24-year-old secretary and young mum caught between her youthful dreams of showbiz glamour and the realisation of her more likely future: soul-crushing domesticity and drudgery with upwardly mobile boyfriend Dave. With her for support is the awkward, frumpy Maureen, long in the shadow of her slimmer, better-looking friend."
Have a peek at this great production -
