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Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage
National Theatre / September 2022
Direction: Lynette Linton
Set and Costume: Frankie Bradshaw
Lighting: Oliver Fenwick
Composition: Benjamin Kwasi Burrell
Sound: George Dennis
Movement: Kane Husbands
Wigs, Hair and Makeup Designer: Cynthia De La Rosa
Staff Director: Tendai Moyo
Photos by Marc Brenner
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'Everybody in Harlem is singing the Blues.'
Olivier Nominated for Best Costume Design
"Frankie Bradshaw’s gently revolving design provides a sure sense of place. All aspects of the production are in perfect harmony; this is quite the best evening I have spent at the National in a long time.” ***** iNews
"Frankie Bradshaw’s tenement-block design is busy with multiple lives – several rooms and the street always on show. Bradshaw’s hand is also important in the tremendous clothes... I have rarely seen costumes used so expressively. They are the fabric equivalent of the songs that break out beautifully through the evening. **** Observer
"The set and costume design by Frankie Bradshaw are gorgeous." **** The Stage
"Frankie Bradshaw's immaculate set, mounted on a revolve, becomes almost a character in its own right" ***Times
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