Garance Marneur

" I always feel that putting on stage a novel about a river journey on stage, especially such an ethereal novel as Huckleberry Finn (Twain said persons attempting to find a plot will be shot) is quite a challenge. […]
The set, a very impressive landing stage, was adapted to become (among other things) a raft, a house and a prison. A moveable truck to the side served not only as an instrument/ prop repository but became a stage for a lovely pastiche of David Garrick performing a very mixed Shakespeare monologue.
Simple props such as planks and logs were used to create rooms, boats, coffins and floating houses and with the addition of blue grass music performed by the cast the story of the outcast boy and the runaway slave was brought to life in an interesting, expressive way [...]. "

WhatsOnStage ****

" a beautifully-designed set "

Newbury Times

" [...] typical of John Terry's ambitious and adventurous style of working. No wonder he has brought in set designer Garance Marneur [...] "

Huddersfield Examiner