David Burrows

David Burrows has collaborated with three principal directors for the last twenty years: Phil Young, Alkis Kritikos and, most recently, David Graham-Young of Contemporary Stage Company. The productions designed for Phil Young include: Crystal Clear (Wyndhams Theatre), Les Miroirs Brisés (French Institute), The Train Years (MOMI), Knickers (Lyric Hammersmith), Blood Brothers (Heilbronn, Germany) and Tonight: Lola Blau (Old Red Lion, Islington).Work with director Alkis Kritikos has included: Miss Julie (Sir Richard Steel Theatre, London), The Collector (Portlands Playhouse, London), the British première of Beckett’s Rough for Theatre 1 & 2 (Theatro Technis and national tour), In Other Beasts the Best (Theatro Technis), Tartuffe (National Theatre of Cyprus, Nicosia, 1997) and The Frog and the Lion Fairy (London Greek schools tour, 1998) and in 2001/2002 the touring musical show All Cloned Up by Mike Bennett. In February 2003 he returned to Cyprus to design The Dinner by Leah Vitali in Larnaka. He designed the world première of Leah Vitali’s new play Roast Beef, an Anglo/Greek production, which opened at the Riverside Studios in June 2004, prior to its transfer to Athens as part of the ‘Cultural Spring’ in the build-up to the Olympic Games.Since March 2000 he has designed four productions for Contemporary Stage Company with David Graham-Young all at the Old Red Lion, Islington: A Summer’s Day by Slawomir Mrozek (British première), Ghosts (Ibsen) and Mr. Paul by Tankred Dorst (British première) and Mystery of the Rose Bouquet by Manuel Puig. In November 2003 he designed The Tunnel of Obsession by Ernesto Sabato, adapted and directed by David Graham-Young for the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon and then for its transfer to the Edinburgh Festival.He is now Head of the Theatre School at Wimbledon School of Art (where he was trained under the late Richard Negri). Until 2002 he was course leader of the Technical Arts Interpretation and Design courses at Wimbledon. In the formative years of its development (1989-1994) he was also course leader of the country’s first MA course in Theatre Design/Scenography.