THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE
ROYAL EXCHANGE THEATRE MANCHESTER
TMA BEST DESIGNER AWARD
"Sarah Frankcom's fine new production, brilliantly designed by Liz Ascroft in a style that combines grim realism with witty touches of surrealism, as well as delivering a thrilling, flaming coup de theatre, has exactly the right mixture of warmth and guts."
CHARLES SPENCER THE TELEGRAPH
THE HOMECOMING
THEATRE ROYAL BATH, UK TOUR
On a spectacular set creating Nosferatu-like shadows, Keith Allen expertly negotiates patriarch Max’s rapid turns in a bleakly humorous production exploring relationships
There is a warped fairytale element to Liz Ascroft’s spectacular set, its back wall decked out in morbid grey-green flock wallpaper that reaches into the heavens, making the house seem as tall and inescapable as Rapunzel’s tower. On to that vast space are thrown spidery Nosferatu-like shadows as characters climb or descend the staircase.
THE TELEGRAPH
BEAUTIFUL THING
ROYAL EXCHANGE THEATRE MANCHESTER
"Yet to see the two lads huddled together in bed - vulnerable beneath the vast overhanging balloon globe that dominates Liz Ascroft’s at once urban and kookily otherworldly set - is to get the message of both how complicated, and also how wordlessly easy, adolescence can be."
DOMINIC CAVENDISH THE TELEGRAPH
ONE FOR THE ROAD
AMBASSADORS & LINCOLN CENTER NEW YORK
WOMEN TO WATCH AND OTHER PRIME MOVERS
LIZ ASCROFT
"From a host of fast-rising women designers, I'd pick her out, largely on the strength of her astonishing set for Pinter's ONE FOR THE ROAD which combined austere economy with a hint of terrifying unseen worlds."
MICHAEL BILLINGTON THE GUARDIAN