Natasha Chivers
British lighting designer Natasha Chivers has been working internationally since the 1990s, creating lighting designs for theatre, opera and dance productions at leading venues worldwide.
Her recent work includes «Inter Alia» (West End / National Theatre), «Prima Facie» (West End / Broadway / UK tour) and «Oedipus» (West End / Broadway). She has also designed the lighting for productions including «The Doctor» (Almeida Theatre / West End / New York), «Sylvia» (Old Vic) and «Oresteia» (Almeida / West End / Park Avenue Armory).
In the field of dance, she has worked on productions including «Peaky Blinders» (Rambert / world tour), «Message in a Bottle» (Sadler’s Wells / tour) and productions by the Royal Ballet.
Natasha Chivers has received numerous awards for her work: for «Prima Facie», she won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design and was nominated for a Tony Award and an Olivier Award. For «Sunday in the Park with George», she was awarded the Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design. She received further nominations for, among others, «Oresteia» (Olivier Award) and «1984» (Drama Desk Award).
Productions
Oedipus, the lead candidate of a new political movement, is as good as assured of election victory. But why are the circumstances of his predecessor’s fatal road traffic accident classified? And what is the fake news regarding his origins about? Oedipus starts to investigate – despite all the warnings. As in his updating of Schnitzler’s «The Doctor», Robert Icke has radically translated a theatre classic into the present. Icke’s «Oedipus» looks behind the myth and is both a family tragedy and a political thriller.
Ödipus (Oedipus)