Set & Costume Design

M’dea Undone
Libretto by Marjorie Chan
Music by John Harris 
Directed by Tim Albery
Set & Costume Design by Michelle Tracey
Lighting Design by Jason Hand
Tapestry Opera
2015

”English director Tim Albery expertly makes use of a set that spans the warehouse space and is composed of various staircases, bridges, and simple set pieces, allowing for a world that is at once exposed and vulnerable as it is cloistered and confined”

- http://playanon.blogspot.ca/2015/05/shes-come-undone.html

“The open-concept visible scaffolding and set design were also interesting as one was not immediately aware of which aspects were part of the building architecture, and which were of the performative ‘stage’ area.  Attention was directed to various areas spanning the space, which not only kept the progression lively, but also lent an element of unpredictability to the scenes”

- Casey Robertson, http://thebuzzmag.ca/2015/05/review-the-tapestry-opera-world-premiere-of-mdea-undone/

“Director Tim Albery expertly managed Tracey's design of the space providing a neat clearly directed visual, a visual that showed a stark contrast between the lush political affluence and the strife torn village that our heroine was forced to betray”

- Greg Finney, http://www.schmopera.com/in-review-mdea-undone/

“I couldn't get over how organic everything was, even the raw scaffolding set, or the small but clear implication of a Presidential Briefing Room. Michelle Tracey's sets and costumes made this an every-day, contemporary story, with noticeable hints of uneasiness…

[Dahlia] was a beautiful foil to M'dea, whose wild curls and flowing costumes are a stark contrast to Dahlia's smooth, fitted dresses and gleaming white smile”

- Jenna Douglas, http://www.schmopera.com/in-review-mdea-undone/