Schaubuhne Berlin
Avignon Festival, July 2011
59's Leo Warner co-directed this live-cinema adaptation of Strindberg's 1888 classic with Katie Mitchell at the Schaubuhne in Berlin in 2010. It appeared at the renowned Avignon theatre festival in July 2011.
V&A/59 Productions
V&A Museum, June 2011
A new commission from the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), this video installation is directed and devised by Katie Mitchell, and produced by 59. Leo Warner is the cinematographer and video designer for the project.
Lyric Hammersmith
January 24th
Based on a collection of dark short stories for adults by Roald Dahl, these twisted tales are adapted for stage for the first time by The League of Gentlemen’s Jeremy Dyson.
National Theatre
Cottesloe, Nov 2010 - Jan 2011
Katie Mitchell's second childrens' show at the National Theatre, adapted by writer Lucy Kirkwood, includes beautiful live shadow puppetry and a magic mirror, courtesy of 59 productions.
National Theatre
Cottesloe, 26th January 2010
Tamsin Oglesby’s furious comedy confronts head-on our embarrassment and fear about old age. It exposes a society in which compassion vies with pragmatism and, by asking unequivocal questions, it comes up with some extraordinary answers.
Berlin Theatre Festival
May 2009
This production from Schauspielhaus Koln has been selected for the Berlin Theatretreffen as one of the "ten best German-language productions of the year".
Development project
University of Huddersfiled,
The Loves of Lady Purple was a development project with writer Judith Adams, puppeteers Faulty Optic, and other associates of the University of Huddersfield drama department.
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh / Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz / Teatr Polski Warsaw
from September 2008
St Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn
Nov 2007
After it's phenomenal success in Edinburgh and on tour, this smash hit from the National Theatre of Scotland sits down in Brooklyn for a sold-out 3 week run.
National Theatre
International Tour / New York, August - November 2008
Leo Warner is the cinematographer for this acclaimed National Theatre tour by director Katie Mitchell, based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, which toured Europe and America in 2008
National Theatre
Cottesloe, July to October 2008
The third collaboration between director Katie Mitchell and 59's Leo Warner, based on Dostoevsky's The Idiot.
National Theatre
Lyttelton, March to May 2007
This production of Martin Crimp's grim critique of Western consumer society marks the second live-camera collaboration between 59's Leo Warner and director Katie Mitchell.
National Theatre of Scotland
Edinburgh Drill Hall, August 2006
Black Watch tells the story of the eponymous Scottish regiment's tour of duty in Iraq. Partly based on verbatim interview transcripts and true events, this production won virtually every theatre award going, and has continued to tour the world for several years.
Suspect Culture
Tramway, Glasgow (and tour), 2006
Based on a book by Adam Philips, this production about a psychiatrist and some of his patients uses a number of cunning video effects to recreate some of Houdini's famous escapology spectacles.
Wee Stories Theatre for Children
Kings Theatre and tour, 2004
This beautiful and engaging production for children tells the tragic story of King Arthur's rise and fall through live music, puppetry, performance and a series of huge video projections that encircle the stage.
Stellar Quines
Scottish Plant Collectors Garden, Pitlochry, 2003
59's first professional video design job was this extraordinary promenade theatre production, set across a 7 acre outdoor garden in the Perthshire mountains. Multiple screens and a custom-built media server set us on the creative and technical path to where we are today.
Vivian Beaumont Theatre
Lincoln Center, from April 14th 2011
The National Theatre's West End smash hit War Horse - featuring new projection and animation design by 59 - opened in New York at the Lincoln Centre on the 14th April 2011, before going on to win innumerable awards including 5 TONYs.
Schauspiel Koln
From February 2011 - in rep
Originally produced at the National Theatre, London, in 2006, (remounted for a world tour in 2008), this project was the first collaboration between director Katie Mitchell and Director of Photography / video designer Leo Warner.
Schaubuhne, Berlin
Saal B, from September 2010 - in Rep
Directed by Katie Mitchell and Leo Warner, this production further explores the live filming techniques developed over six previous collaborations, this time taking Strindberg's bleak Swedish drama about class war and gender conflict.
National Theatre
New London Theatre, 2009 onwards
After two sell-out runs at the National Theatre, War Horse made a transfer to the West End's New London Theatre where it has been running since April 2009, and continues to break its own box office records.
National Theatre
US Tour, July 2012
The National Theatre's Tony Award winning smash hit - featuring animation and projection design by 59 - begins an American tour in summer 2012, opening in Los Angeles.