Seattle Repertory Theatre, 2010

Playwright: Edward Albee

Director: Allison Narver

Costumes: Melanie Taylor Burgess

Lights: Allen Hahn

Sound: Paul James Pendergast

“Matthew Smucker’s beautifully minimal set suggests an entire room without actually being one. It’s an abstraction of a space, the vaguest memory of an actual location represented on stage. The result is an existential world that lives outside of time but falls in and out of phase with it. It’s both engaging and slightly disorienting.” - The Sunbreak

“Everything about this production earns high praise but let us begin with Matthew Smucker’s beautifully designed and executed set, the luxurious but classically simple bedroom of ‘A’. The proscenium was framed, like a painting, to focus the attention on the surreality of the drama on stage, and the walls of the bedroom were all sheer, white draperies that rippled when the actors walked near them and they reflected the colors of the lighting… it was a delicious fever dream of a set that nestled someplace between plausible reality and the fractured subconsciousness of the dying woman. It was a beautifully realized set and Mr Smucker probably just earned himself a slew of awards nominations for it. High praise also, for Allen Hahn’s dramatic lighting, Melanie Taylor Burgess’s immaculate costumes and the subtle and effective sound design by Paul James Prendergast. And, it was all executed under the astute direction of Allison Narver, who directed with a clean, carefully choreographed but organic purpose of intent.” - Seattle Gay Scene

Production Photo Credits: Matthew Smucker and Chris Bennion