Fifty Nine Productions
59's live camera productions
Working largely with director Katie Mitchell, 59's director Leo Warner has developed a comprehensive creative and technical technique for integrating live video into performance. Many of the shows have involved actors operating camera equipment to an incredibly high degree of accuracy, sometimes - though not always - supplemented with skilled camera operators. The live output is graded live using pre-programmed parameters, and the edited film - which is presented to a cinematic standard - is output simultaneously to a screen or screens integrated into the stage design.
A selection of these projects 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
...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.