• A Disappearing Number

    Complicite's piece about the mathematician Ramanujan was winner of the Laurence Olivier Award 2008 for Best New Play,  Evening Standard Award 2007 for Best Play, and Critics' Circle Theatre Award 2007 for Best New Play.

  • A Dog's Heart

    Complicite's Simon McBurney directs his first opera, a co-production between Complicite and Dutch National Opera.  Dog's Heart is a new opera by Russian composer Sasha Raskatov, based on Mikhail Bulgakov's short story, The Heart of a Dog. 

  • A Girl In A Car With A Man

    Wireless Live video and CCTV replay effects for Rob Evan's haunting new play.

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Headlong produces a new touring version of a Shakespeare's classic, directed by Natalie Abrahami and produced at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton.

  • A Minute Too Late

    On Complicite's 20th Anniversary, they return to the National Theatre with their first production, with added visuals by Mesmer.

  • Albert Speer

  • Ali to Karim

    Ali to Karim charts the history of the Ismaili Muslims from Mohammed to the current Aga Khan. The production made extensive narrative use of visual illustration and animations.

  • All My Sons

    Large scale HD scenic projection & video design for Simon McBurney's production of Arthur Millers All My Sons on Broadway.  Projection and Video design Finn Ross.

  • Amerika

    Karl Rossman is force to emigrate to Amerika in this new adaptation of Kafka's unfinished novel. This Chaplinesque comedy tells of his social crash and innocent failure in the 'Land of Opportunity'.

  • As You Desire Me

    High Definition videography and post-production for Projection on black gauze. Video design by Sven Ortel for Mesmer.

  • ASL

    Real actors interact with virtual projected performers in Cyberspace play. First theatrical use of catalyst moving head projectors on the UK. Lighting and Video Design by Sven Ortel

  • Baby Girl

    Part of the National Theatre's Triple Bill season, Mesmer filmed projected backdrops for this new play by Roy Williams.

  • Beautiful Burnout

    Keep your guard up. Protect yourself at all times. Protect your boy. Keep him safe. That is all that matters. Beautiful Burnout is a thrilling new piece of highly physical theatre immersing the audience in the explosive world of boxing.

  • Beggars Opera

    New music and new script for the Beggars Opera, devised and created by Vanishing Point and a Band called Quin.  Video and Projection Finn Ross.

  • Blood

    Video Design (Ian William Galloway) for Lars Noren's play, at the Royal Court Theatre, London.

  • Bunny

    Feisty 18-year-old Katie is thrust on a white knuckle ride through one extraordinary evening when her boyfriend is attacked on the street.

  • Counted

    New verbatim theatre piece performed in the debating chamber at London's County hall, with video designs by Dick Straker of Mesmer.

  • Das Portrait

    A rare staging of Weinberg's satirical 1980 opera "Das Portrait" for The Bregenzer Festspiele, Austria.

  • Der Ring Des Nibelungen - Mariinsky

    Re-imagined version of the 'Kirov' Ring cycle under the direction of Alexander Zeldin. Conducted by Valerie Gergiev. Video Design by Sven Ortel. Opening July 2009 in St.Petersburg and London

  • Der Ring Des Nibelungen - ROH

    Mesmer provided video realisation and consultancy for the Royal Opera House's recent three-year production of Der Ring Des Neibelung.

  • Desire Lines

    Wryly funny, heartfelt and lyrical, Desire Lines traces the pulls and pushes that lead and drive us through life. How do we decide on a place to call home and if we could live it all again, what would we change?

  • Desire Under the Elms

    This epic tale of ambition, love and passion in nineteenth century New England is a great American classic, confirming Nobel Prize winning Eugene O’Neill’s reputation as the ‘father’ of American drama.

  • Deuce

    Video and projection design (Sven Ortel) for a new play by Terrence McNally, directed by Michael Blakemore. Opening May 2007 on Broadway.

  • Die Frau Ohne Schatten

    Jonathan Kent directs Strauss' mysterial opera at the Mariinsky in St.Petersburg. Sets are by Paul Brown. Valery Gergiev conducts and Video & Projection Designs are by Sven Ortel and Nina Dunn.

  • DNA

    Mesmer provided hi-def video backdrops for this new play by Dennis Kelly as part of the National Theatre's Triple Bill season.

  • Don Giovanni

    Retribution closes in on the man who’s bedded thousands of women. A new production directed by Rufus Norris at the ENO.

  • EPIC!

    Epic sets out on a playful and experimental journey through 20th century history, while wondering if it is nostalgia or anger that drives our looking back.

  • Eugene Onegin

    Tchaikovsky’s lyrical masterpiece returns to ENO in a new staging that reunites director Deborah Warner and Music Director Edward Gardner

  • Faith Healer

    Mesmer provided video design and realisation for Brian Friel's sell-out run of Faith Healer in Dublin.

  • Fat Girl gets a Haircut

    Roundhouse commissioned performance improvised by young actors about their own lives. Projected animation is a wonder to behold around the Roundhouse' internal archways.

  • Flashdance - The Musical

    Based on the Paramount Pictures film, Flashdance tells the story of 18 year old Alex, a welder by day and ‘flashdancer’ by night, whose dream is to obtain a place at the prestigious Shipley Dance Academy.

  • Frankenstein

    Video Design for Laurie Samson's and Frantic Assembly's production at Royal&Derngate

  • Freerun

    For the first time the explosive action of Free Running, one of the world's most exciting and dangerous extreme sports, is transformed into a live stage show.

  • Going Dark

    Going blind whilst the universe goes dark. A story about cosmic perception and visual process.

  • Greenland

    Global warming is no longer a theory but a reality and through Greenland the National Theatre seeks some understanding of an immensely complicated subject.

  • Hamlet

    New York's Theatre For A New Audience's first staging of Shakepeare's most popular and controversal play. Directed by David Esbjonson. Designed by Antje Ellermann, lit by Marcus Dosh, sound and music by Jane Shawi.

  • Henry V

    Video Design by Mesmer of live and pre-recorded news footage in a contemporary version of the play at the National Theatre.

  • His Dark Materials

    Projection and System Design for The National's epic staging of Phillip Pullman's astonishing tale.

  • Hitchcock Blonde

    Video realisation for Bill Dudley including animation, editing, projection onto flats and water set elements and systems design.

  • Hotel de Pekin

    We created video imagery for the new opera 'Hôtel de Pékin', the first show to be staged at the new Muziekkwartier theatre in Enschede, Holland.

  • Interiors

    Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist play Interior was the beginning for Vanishing Points exploration of the long dark Scottish nights and the survival mechanisms people develop to live through the darkness.

  • It's a Wonderful Life

     Premiere of a new musical based on the classic film. Directed by Peter Rowe and set design by Libby Watson. Video design by Dick Straker.

  • Jerry Springer - The Opera

    Video Design Realisation and Content Production at the Royal National Theatre'

  • Julius Caesar

    Multiple screens and projection over set elements, running from a media server-based system.

  • Jumpers

    Archive and Original Video Imagery projected on moving glass panels in David Leveaux's revival of Tom Stoppard's classic.

  • Just Add Water

    Just Add Water is a new dance piece by Shobana Jeyasingh that premiered at the Linbury featuring stage design and video animation by Dick Straker.

  • Knight Crew

    The tale of King Arthur updated to a Brighton council estate in a new opera by Julian Philips directed by John Fulljames with set by Es Devlin and video and projection design by Finn Ross

  • Leona Lewis at Hackney Empire

    Leona Lewis' first live show featured video projection trickery by Mesmer in Hackney Empire.

  • Les Enfants Terribles

    The premiere of Philip Glass' 1993 opera adaptation of Les Enfants Terribles, at the Arcola theatre as part of Grimeborn 2010, with video designed by Ian William Galloway of Mesmer.

  • Little Otik

    Vanishing Point in association with National Theatre of Scotland adaptation for the stage of Jan Svankmajer cult film, Little Otik.  Projection and Video design by Finn Ross. Toured May/June 08.

  • Logic of The Birds

    Filmic and sung performance by Iranians Shirin Neshat and Sussan Deyhim.

  • Lovesong

    Lovesong, by Abi Morgan and Frantic Assembly, intertwines a couple in their 20s with the same man and woman a lifetime later.

  • Mack and Mabel

    Video footage shot and edited.

  • Marguerite

    Video & Projection Design (Sven Ortel) for Boublil, Schoenberg and Legrand's new musical "Marguerite". After London's  Haymarket Theatre this gorgeous production will premiere In Tokyo on February 13th. Directed by Jonathan Kent.

  • Measure For Measure

    Video and projection design and full video realisation services for Complicite, including in-show camera manipulation and control, filming, editing and live effects.

  • Medea/Medea

    Ian William Galloway works with Headlong Theatre and Dylan Tighe to create video for the Gate Theatre's production of Medea/Medea, the winner of 2009's New DIrections award.

     

  • MICroscope

    MICroscope by Riz MC, aka Riz Ahmed, tours the UK.  A theatrical music gig, in promenade, projection and live camera effects by Finn Ross and Ian William Galloway

  • My Own Song

    A new musical starring four-time Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year Clint Holmes

  • Nocturnal

    Ian William Galloway of Mesmer works with director Lyndsey Turner and animator Matt Walker to create a projected setting for the new play Nocturnal at the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill.

  • Only The Brave

    Video Design for a new musical. Only The Brave is based on the true story of the taking of "Pegasus Bridge". The design features bold stylised imagery inspired by 1940's propaganda posters.

  • Orlando

    Video and Projection design by Dick Straker and Finn Ross for Independent Opera's acclaimed production of Handel's masterpiece.

  • Orpheus and Eurydice

    A new version of the ancient Orpheus myth, staged in the Old Vic tunnels, this is truly a journey through the underworld with authentic drips and damp patches.

  • Proper Clever

    Ian William Galloway of Mesmer designed video projections for this new play by Frank Cottrell-Boyce at the Liverpool Playhouse.

  • Rebecca

    Video Design for the musical adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's famous novel turned into a Hitchcock movie in 1938. First produced at the Raimund Theatre, Vienna, the show opens in the West End in 2011.

  • Remember This

    Truly forgettable new work by Poliakoff.

  • Richard II

    Pre recorded and live camera cut with archive footage tracks the events and conflicts in this contemporary staging.

  • Riverdance

    The original Dublin stage production.

  • Rushes

     New choreography in 2008 for the Royal Ballet by Kim Brandstrup

  • Sancta Susanna

    Composed by Hindemith in 1921, this 23 minute opera examines the relationship between celibacy and lust in Christianity.

  • Saxploitation

    Saxophone Quartet with Projection

  • Seize The Day

    Seize The day. Written and Directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah. Part of The Tricycle Theatres' Not Black and White triple bill. Video-Dick Straker

  • Serious Money

    Carol Churchill's critical look at the stock market deregulation in 1987 makes a timely return to the Birmingham Rep.  Direction: Jonathan Munby, Design: Paul Wills, Video Design: Finn Ross.

  • Seven Angels

    Seven angels have fallen through space and time for so long, they have forgotten why. Inspired by Paradise Lost, Seven Angels interprets the themes of John Milton’s masterpiece for a modern audience. A new opera by Glyn Maxwell and Luke Bedford.

  • Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company

    Faultline. A new dance piece by Shobana Jeayasingh using a projected backdrop.

  • Shun-Kin

    Complicite present an exploration of two Junichiro Tanizaki texts, a short story "A Portrait of Shunkin" and his essay on Japanese aesthetics "In Praise of Shadows".

  • Silverland

    Video Design for Lacuna Theatre's post-apocalyptic environmental drama (!) at the Arcola Theater.

  • Singin' In The Rain

    Singin' in the Rain is the story of that first Hollywood musical, the moment when the silver screen found its voice and never looked back. Chichester Festival Theatre's new production, directed by Jonathan Church, transfers to the West End in 2012.

  • South Pacific

    Montage of scenic and historical reference for scene changes.

  • Starvin

    Ian William Galloway designs Lighting and Projection for Fitzgerald & Stapleton's new dance piece at the Dublin Fringe

  • Sugar Mummies

    Video design Dick Straker and animation for the Royal Court's production of Sugar Mummies.

  • Sunset Boulevard

    A new production of Lloyd Webber's musical for the Gothenburg Opera and the first ever Scandinavian production. Vernon Mound's concept takes place within the original 1950's Billy Wilder film.

  • Swan Lake

    Helgi Tomasson's spectacular new staging of  Swan Lake at San Francisco Ballet. Features sets and costumes by Jonathan Fensom as well as Imagery and projections by Sven Ortel and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. Opens February 21st 2009

  • Teatro Minimo/ Hinter Masken

    A short new Opera by Anno Schreier, which has taken its inspiration from a short story by Haruki Murakami. Directed By Claudia Blersch. Opens January 25th

  • Ten Plagues

    A one man song-cycle, performed by Marc Almond, wirtten by Marc Ravenhill. London is infected. The dead fall in the streets, the plague of 1665 takes hold and we go on one man's journey through a city in crisis.

  • The Coast Of Utopia

    270 Degree scenic projection on cyclorama for three 3 hours plays.

  • The Damnation of Faust

    "Perfectly judged use of video". Terry Gilliam takes on Berliotz's Damnation of Faust in an epic new staging for the ENO.  Video design by Finn Ross

  • The Duchess of Malfi

  • The Excursions of Mr Broucek

    The first staging of Janacek's satirical opera in 25 years. Set in Prague after the Spring revolution we follow the excursions of Mr Broucek to the Moon and 15th Century Prague.  Revival for Scottish Opera's for Spring season.  Video and Projection by Finn Ross.

  • The First Thing That Ever Ever Happened

    Ian William Galloway designs painted projections for Peepolykus's new show in association with the Lyric Young Company.

  • The Girls of Slender Means

    London shattered by world war 2, women doing what they can to survive and an unexploded bomb. Muriel Sparks novel adaped for the stage by Judith Adams.

  • The Gods Weep

    Ian William Galloway and Finn Ross create a video design for RSC's production of The Gods Weep, a new play by Dennis Kelly. Directed by Maria Aberg.

  • The Good Actor

    Part of the Digital Stages festival 2011, The Good Actor was an interactive theatrical installation over two days at Hoxton Hall.

  • The Guardians

     HighTide production for the Halesworth festival. Directed by Natalie Abrahami and designed by takis with projection by Dick Straker.

  • The History Boys

  • The King and I

    Curve Theatre's 2010 Christmas musical with projection design and video production by Dick Straker.

  • The Kreutzer Sonata

    Ian William Galloway designs video projections for a new piece based on Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata at the Gate theatre, directed by Natalie Abrahami.

  • The Lessening of Difference

     bgroup's latest offering of poetry in motion. Choreography, audio, spoken word and image with a little bump and much grind.

  • The Life of Galileo

  • The Lion in Winter

    A family Christmas becomes a family at war. Henry II, not so young as he was, invites his estranged wife Eleanor of Aquitane, and his three sons, Richard, Geoffrey and John, to spend the festive season with him.

  • The Lion's Face

    When a man loses his way home it signals an irreversible return to childhood. Compassionate, heartfelt, strikingly dramatic and often witty, this is an original and richly-textured take on ageing, memory and the incomprehension of getting old in the minds of the young.

  • The Little Mermaid

    Video and Projection Design (Sven Ortel) for Disney's major new musical, which opened on Broadway in January 2008. Orginal imagery was created and integrated into the stage design using innovative projection techniques

  • The London Sinfonietta

    Rotating 3D projection screens for a piece by Morton Feldman.

  • The Miracle

    Mesmer provided hi-def video backdrops for this new play by Lin Coghlan, as part of the National Theatre's Triple Bill season.

  • The Missing

    Reuniting director John Tiffany (Black Watch) with author Andrew O'Hagan (Be Near Me) The Missing is a series of gripping encounters that retraces and reanimates the final journeys of sons, daughters, sisters and childhood friends; the missing.

  • The Mountaintop

    After great acclaim the show has now transferred to the Trafalgar Studios for another six week run. TimesOnline notes Dick Straker's brilliantly realised projection design.

  • The Mountaintop

    It is April 3, 1968, the night before he dies. In room 306 of the Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee, Martin Luther King orders coffee. A new production of Katori Hall's 2009 Olivier Award-winning play opens in Derby.

  • The Odyssey

    David Farr's staging is playful, ingenious and spiked with irreverence. Video design Dick Straker.

  • The Oresteia

  • The Permanent Way

    Mesmer, in collaboration with Bill Dudley, created animations, stills footage and projection design for The Permanent Way.

  • The Powerbook

    System design and projection realisation onto multiple moving surfaces and video monitors.

  • The Sea

    Video Design for Jonathan Kent's 2nd production of his Haymarket Season.

  • The Spanish Tragedy

    Ian William Galloway designs video for Mitchell Moreno's new production of this rarely-preformed revenge tragedy at the Arcola.

  • The Tales of Ballycumber

    The Tales of Ballycumber written by Sebastian Barry and directed by David Leveaux and starring Stephen Rae at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

  • The Tempest

    Projection design by Ian William Galloway for Parrabola and Lightworks' new production of the classic at the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival, this year themed around the use of new media.

     

  • The Tempest

    Trevor Nunn directs Ralph Fiennes in William Shakespeare's The Tempest as the third production of his electrifying season at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

  • The Three Musketeers

    For the 2005 production of the Three Musketeers in Berlin, Mesmer integrated imagery by the Gray Circle into the lighting, set and costume design. We also designed the overall system and infrastructure that deliveres the imagery on multiple surfaces.

     

  • The Wizard of Oz

    Mesmer provide system design and technical services for the Southbank Centre's 2008 summer show.

  • The Woman In White

    Projection design, system design, video editing and animation for a fully projected cyc set by Bill Dudley.

  • The Wonder Of Sex

  • Tiefland

    Matthias Hartmann's take on D'Albert's opera at the Opera House Zurich, Switzerland. Video Design by Sven Ortel for Mesmer. Now revived at Barcelona's prestigious Gran Teatre Del Liceu - The Barcelona Opera House. Opens October 2nd.

  • Tiger Country

    The first time playwrite Nina Raine has both written and directed, Tiger Country follows many characters within the NHS as they live, love and die.

  • Tom Vek 2011

    Tom Vek's first live tour in five years to promote his second album, 'Leisure Seizure' features a stage set and video system designed by Mesmer.

  • Top Girls

    Caryl Churchill’s feminist attack on Thatcherism, directed by Max Stafford-Clark, marks it's 30th Birthday at Chichester.   

  • Tristan Und Isolde

    Tristan und Isolde is widely acknowledged as one of the peaks of the operatic repertory. Grange Park's production is directed and designed by David Fielding and featuring projection by Dick Straker.

  • Turn of the Screw

    A new production of Britten's brilliant opera by Robert Carson for Theater an der Wien, Vienna. 

  • Vanishing Points

    Orginal video content and live manipulation for Simon McBurney and John Berger's site specific collaboration.

  • Von Heute Auf Morgen

    John Fulljames directs Opera de Lyon's production of Von Heute Auf Morgen by Schoenberg.

  • Wonderland

    New Musical with music by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics by Jack Murphy. Directed by Gregory Boyd and Sets by Neil Patel. Video design by Sven Ortel. Opening December 2009 in Florida. More info here.

    A new and improved "Wonderland" is going to Broadway in 2011 after a try-out in Tampa.