Martin JagoAnimatronics · Puppets · SFX

Theatre of Blood

National Theatre, London
April 2005

Martin co-designed and made magic and costume effects for Improbable's stage production of Theatre of Blood, with Jim Broadbent, at the National Theatre.

Props Supervisor - Fraser Birchill Illusion Supervisor - Paul Kieve

Costume and Illusion Effects

Illusioneer and costume effects for three Shakespearean deaths in the stage adaptation of the cult camp MGM movie.

Theatre of Blood poster

Behind the scenes

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  • Vikki lying on the rehearsal room floor beside large pieces of white fabric cut to pattern and taped down, with scissors and markers nearby

    Vikki Pattern Cutting

  • A performer in a long beige trench coat stands with arms outstretched while several crew adjust the costume around her in a rehearsal hall

    Tramp Transformation

  • A performer in a trench coat and patterned dress leans back with raised arms before a tie dyed pink wing held up on poles by crew

    Perdetor Wings

  • Two huge tie dyed pink fabric wings spread wide on poles above a hanging trench coat in a rehearsal hall while crew and performers hold them aloft

    Coat Flies Off

  • Publicity still of seven performers in coats and suits reading letters on a dark smoky stage with a man in a red tartan suit holding two white poodles

    Critics & Letters

  • A dark stage scene with a painted wooden sign above a man lying on a table beside a metal funnel and mincer, with a chef pouring

    Force Feeding Poodles

  • Publicity still showing a woman with blonde curlers under a hood dryer in a leopard print gown beside a long haired man in a blue shirt

    Hairdresser Scene

  • A man in a blue shirt stands beside a red salon chair as sparks burst from the hood dryer over a seated figure in a spattered gown

    Frying Sally

  • A skull under a hood dryer sits in a red salon chair in a spattered gown while two performers talk at left on a dark stage

    Cremated

  • A pale man in a black cloak with red lining gestures towards a group of ragged tramps sitting and kneeling on a dark stage

    Tramps on Stage

  • A man in a black cloak takes the hands of a woman in a long coat beneath two huge glowing red fabric wings held aloft by performers

    Perdator Wings

  • The ornate gilded proscenium arch of the stage set, aged and weathered, with a lion above and tattered red velvet curtains and side boxes

    The Proscenium

  • Publicity still of a woman in a floral maxi dress embraced by a man in a blue shirt, with a skeleton in a hood dryer seated behind them

    Skull

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