If you don't know...Rosie Elnile

…let me introduce you!

Rosie Elnile is an award winning performance designer, currently responsible for some of the most exciting theatre design in London. 

She was awarded the Stage Debut Award for best designer in 2017, and is Associate Artist at The Gate. Rosie’s recent credits include The Ridiculous Darkness, Unknown Island and The Convert. Further credits include The Wolves, Big Guns, Returning to Haifa & Three Sisters.
 

“an exceptional example of thinking through space.., she turns place into feeling" 
- Matt Truman, Review of Returning to Haifa

Rosie is currently presenting Prayer  at The Gate - originally a project intended to be “a performance space that could hold audience and performer as equals, that could dismantle colonial story structures and engender collective acts of imagination.”

Covid-19 has necessitated the temporary closure of The Gate, and Prayer has been adapted and re-imagined to become arguably more important than ever. Rosie will be leading 3 online interactive sharings of Prayer, a look at the process, and her thinking behind the concept:

‘We imagined that instead of making a show in the Gate we would plant a garden – and that somehow by doing this we would make the Gate feel and act like a piece of common land. … The plants would need to be looked after – how amazing would it be to make a space that needed real care, from the audience, from the actors, from the creative team. What if for the 6 weeks that it normally takes us to make a show we all acted as gardeners?’

Tickets to Prayer are available here.
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Visit her website here.