Fifty Nine Productions
Katie Mitchell's work with 59 productions
British avant-garde director Katie Mitchell first worked with 59's Leo Warner in 2006 on the National Theatre's award-winning production Waves, which was the first in a series of collaborative investigations into using cinematic-quality camera work in live performance. The company has also worked on a number of her other, less video-focused projects. A summary of all these productions is listed below:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.