Fifty Nine Productions
All Projects
Past Projects
Al Gran Sole Carico d'Amore
Staatsoper Berlin
Kraftwerk Mitte, 1st-11th March 2012
Opera
This production directed by Katie Mitchell with Director of Photography Leo Warner (59 Productions) premiered in the vast Felsenreitschule at the Salzburg Festival in 2009. It has been re-staged to fit into the extraordinary post-industrial space of Kraftwerk Mitte, a disused power station in Berlin's Kreuzberg area.
Five Truths - Leeds
V&A/59 Productions
Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, February 2012
Theatre, Gallery & Museum
After an acclaimed showcase at the V&A in London in 2011, this new video installation, directed and devised by Katie Mitchell, and produced by 59 has opened in Leeds. Leo Warner is the cinematographer and video designer for the project.
The Enchanted Island
Metropolitan Opera, New York
from December 31st 2011
Opera
This new opera, with a new libretto by Jeremy Sams, is assembled from the greatest hits of the Baroque opera era, and is based on the Shakespearean stories of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Tempest.
Dark Sisters
Gotham Chamber Opera / MTG / OCP
Gerald W. Lynch Theater, 9th November 2011
Opera
59 has designed the set and projection for Dark Sisters, a new opera which describes one woman’s dangerous attempt to escape her life as a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS).
Satyagraha - Met Opera
Metropolitan Opera / ENO / Improbable
Met Opera, New York, from November 4th 2011
Opera
Kristin, nach Fräulein Julie - Avignon
Schaubuhne Berlin
Avignon Festival, July 2011
Theatre
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.
Five Truths
V&A/59 Productions
V&A Museum, June 2011
Theatre, Film & TV, Gallery & Museum
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.
Fink - 'Perfect Darkness'
Ninja Tune / 59
World tour, September 2011
Live Music
Ninja Tune artist Fin Greenall released his fourth album under the Fink moniker in June 2011. 59 have built a cool but compact stage environment - including a flexible lighting installation based on Ikea anglepoises - that will travel with the band around the world.
Duke Special at the Met Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 24th March 2011
Live Music, Gallery & Museum
Irish singer-songwriter Duke Special, who has released a series of albums inspired by great artists and writers, is performing a selection of songs written in response to the Met's Steiglitz. Steichen, Strand exhibition. The live show will feature a selection of these photos, presented on multiple projection screens by 59.
Die Wellen / Waves
Schauspiel Koln
From February 2011 - in rep
Theatre
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.
Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales
Lyric Hammersmith
January 24th
Theatre
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.
Beauty and the Beast
National Theatre
Cottesloe, Nov 2010 - Jan 2011
Theatre
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.
Invitus Invitam
Royal Ballet, Covent Garden
October 2010
Dance
Choreographed by Kim Brandstrup, Invitus Invitam is a new Royal Ballet commission based around Racine's Reine Berenice. The solid brick walls that dominate the stage slowly take on the shape and depth of a Roman theatre, thanks to projection by 59.
Les Miserables - 25th Anniversary Concert
Cameron Mackintosh
O2 Arena, October 3rd
Musical, Live Music, Film & TV
This 16,000-seat spectacular featuring over 200sq metres of video LED wall was broadcast live to cinemas around the world, and recorded for worldwide distribution on DVD
Idomeneo
English National Opera
London Coliseum, 18th June - 19th July 2009
Opera
One of Mozart's less frequently performed operas, Idomeneo tells the story of the King who strikes a bargain with Neptune which results in him unwittingly committing to sacrifice his own son. The increasingly tumultuous seascape was provided by 59 Productions.
The Pearl Fishers
English National Opera
London Coliseum, June 2010
Opera
A thrilling tale of friendship tested by love, set on an exotic isle in an eastern sea, Bizet's early masterpiece is a gem of 19th-century French opera. The Production features a spectacular opening sequence created using animation and underwater cinematography by 59.
Jonsi
Frakkur / 59
World tour, April - Dec 2010
Live Music
Jonsi - lead singer of Sigur Ros - toured the world in 2010 with a brand new show, entirely designed by 59 Productions, to mark the release of his album, 'Go'.
Satyagraha - ENO
English National Opera
London Coliseum, 25th Feb - 26 March 2010
Opera
One of the most visually spectacular stagings of recent decades, ENO’s hit production of Philip Glass’s Satyagraha broke all Company records for contemporary opera when it premiered and then went on to enjoy huge success at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. This is it's much-anticipated return to the London Coliseum.
Really Old, Live Forty-Five
National Theatre
Cottesloe, 26th January 2010
Theatre
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.
Les Miserables - UK & Europe
Cameron Mackintosh
UK and European Tour, 2009-2010
Musical
For it's 25th anniversary Cameron Mackintosh has created a new touring version of this best-loved musical. The new design features projection throughout, and includes some spectacular animated moments including Valjean's walk through the Paris sewers, and Javert's suicide.
A Family Portrait
59 Productions / Film London / Channel 4 / UK Film Council
October 2009
Film & TV, Animated Film
Winning prizes and praise at film festivals around the world, this short animation by regular 59 collaborator Joseph Pierce, and produced by 59, became one of 33 Oscar-eligible short animations in 2011.
The Goldberg Project
Royal Opera House (ROH2)
Linbury Theatre, September 2009
Dance
Kim Brandstrup choreographs a mixture of contemporary dancers and principals of the Royal Ballet in this Olivier award-winning world premiere
Al Gran Sole Carico D'Amore
Salzburg Festival
Aug 2009
Opera
This project marks the 6th collaboration between director Katie Mitchell and DP / video designer Leo Warner
Request Programme / Wunschkonzert - Berlin
Berlin Theatre Festival
May 2009
Theatre
This production from Schauspielhaus Koln has been selected for the Berlin Theatretreffen as one of the "ten best German-language productions of the year".
After Dido
ENO
Young Vic Theatre, 2008
Opera
Leo Warner, director of Fifty Nine Productions, continues a series of collaborations with director Katie Mitchell with this new opera production, inspired by Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
The Loves of Lady Purple
Development project
University of Huddersfiled,
Theatre
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.
Spilt Milk
NFTS
March 2009
Film & TV
This TV sketch-show pilot was produced by the NFTS, directed by Aneil Karia, and features writing from 59's Mark Grimmer
Doctor Atomic - London
English National Opera
London Coliseum, February 2009
Opera
This contemporary opera by American composer John Adams is transferring to London after a highly successful season at the Metropolitan Opera in New York
Stand Up
NFTS
6m50s, DigiBeta
Film & TV, Animated Film
Stand Up was (59 associate) Joseph Pierce's graduation piece from the NFTS. It firmly established the hand-drawn rotoscoping style and dark humour of his subsequent and ongoing work, and was selected for film festivals around the world.
Cherry Blossom
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh / Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz / Teatr Polski Warsaw
from September 2008
Theatre
Dr Atomic
Metropolitan Opera, NY
October-November 2008
Worldwide cinecast 8th November 2008
Opera
Set in the Nevada Desert in the hours leading up to the testing of the first Atomic Bomb, this opera by John Adams explores the thoughts and fears of Dr Oppenheimer and his associates at Los Alamos. Featuring animation and projection design by 59.
Black Watch - New York
St Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn
Nov 2007
Theatre
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.
Waves - World Tour
National Theatre
International Tour / New York, August - November 2008
Theatre
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
...some trace of her
National Theatre
Cottesloe, July to October 2008
Theatre
The third collaboration between director Katie Mitchell and 59's Leo Warner, based on Dostoevsky's The Idiot.
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Roam [wasn't staged in a day]
59 / NTS / Grid Iron
2006
Film & TV
This 27 minute film documents the extraordinary process of mounting a piece of world-class site-specific theatre in a busy international airport, a challenge undertaken by Grid Iron and the National Theatre of Scotland.
Seven Deadly Sins
Royal Ballet
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2007
Dance
Will Tuckett choreographs this modern piece starring Royal Ballet principal Zenaida Yanowsky and singer-songwriter legend Martha Wainwright.
Attempts on Her Life
National Theatre
Lyttelton, March to May 2007
Theatre
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.
Death in Venice
English National Opera
London Coliseum, Summer 2007
Opera
Deborah Warner directs in this atmospheric staging of Britten's opera, based on the novella by Thomas Mann.
Satyagraha
English National Opera / Improbable
London Coliseum, April 2007
Opera
This beautiful production of Philip Glass's extraordinary opera about Gandhi's years as a young lawyer in South Africa features some ravishing images courtesy of the ever-inventive Improbable Theatre Company, with projections by 59.
Black Watch
National Theatre of Scotland
Edinburgh Drill Hall, August 2006
Theatre
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.
The Unrecognized
Adalah / Oxfam GB / EU
Shot on location in Israel, 2005
Film & TV
A short documentary / advocacy film which highlights the plight of Arab citizens of Israel who live in villages that have been declared "unrecognized" by the state, and thereby deprived of basic facilities like water and healthcare.
The Escapologist
Suspect Culture
Tramway, Glasgow (and tour), 2006
Theatre
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.
An Introduction to Hardman
National Trust
Hardman Museum, Liverpool, 2005
Film & TV, Gallery & Museum
This short documentary / informational film introduces viewers to the work of prolific Lancashire-based photographer Edward Chambre Hardman, and recreates some of his photographic techniques and processes.
Arthur: The Story of a King
Wee Stories Theatre for Children
Kings Theatre and tour, 2004
Theatre
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.
Sweet Fanny Adams in Eden
Stellar Quines
Scottish Plant Collectors Garden, Pitlochry, 2003
Theatre
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.
Follow a Shadow
Impressions Gallery
York, 2002
Film & TV, Gallery & Museum
This art film led by photographer and video artist Simon Warner was directed by Leo Warner and produced by 59
Current Projects
War Horse - Toronto
Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto
From February 28th 2012
Theatre
The National Theatre's Tony Award winning smash hit - featuring animation and projection design by 59 - opens at the Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto in February 2012.
The Pub
59 Productions
Release January 2012
Film & TV, Animated Film
Created by animator Joseph Pierce, who was behind the worldwide festival hit A Family Portrait in 2010, this new animated short produced by 59 Productions is now in competition at festivals worldwide.
Les Miserables - US tour
Cameron Mackintosh / Networks
Tour, From Nov 2010
Musical
After the spectacular success of the European tour of this re-design and re-imagining of Schoenberg and Boubel's 25-year old classic - featuring animation and projection by 59 Productions throughout - this North-American tour was launched in November 2011.
The Half-Light
Congo Red Films / 59 Productions
released May 2011
Film & TV
Written and directed by Prasanna Puwanarajah, The Half-Light tells the story of a lonely man's quest to put the light back in his faded life.
War Horse - New York
Vivian Beaumont Theatre
Lincoln Center, from April 14th 2011
Theatre
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.
Go Live - DVD
Klikk Film/Fifty Nine Productions/EMI Records
On general release, Released on DVD November 29th 2010
Film & TV
‘Go Live’ is the official DVD film release of jonsi’s hugely acclaimed solo show, designed by 59 Productions.
Fraulein Julie / Miss Julie
Schaubuhne, Berlin
Saal B, from September 2010 - in Rep
Theatre
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.
War Horse - West End
National Theatre
New London Theatre, 2009 onwards
Theatre
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.
Future Projects
Salome
Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, 31st May
This is revival of David McVicar's production of Strauss' Salome which originally opened in February 2008 to a sell-out run and much critical acclaim.
Dark Sisters
Gotham Chamber Opera / MTG / OCP
Opera Company of Philadelphia, June 2012
Opera
59 has designed the set and projection for Dark Sisters, a new opera which describes one woman’s dangerous attempt to escape her life as a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS).
War Horse - US Tour
National Theatre
US Tour, July 2012
Theatre
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.