Past Productions
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Beyond Image Productions was formerly known as 'PAINTED HORSE THEATRE COMPANY'
Hedda Gabler
“Hedda Gabler” is a tragedy exploring the pointlessness of
the life imposed on women in the nineteenth century. Hypocrisy and double
moral standards helped create a social context for Ibsen’s characters
to flourish as he dramatises the hidden conflicts in this society by opening
the doors to the private rooms of the bourgeois homes. He shows what can
be hiding behind the beautiful facades; moral duplicity, confinement,
betrayal and fraud. 
Ibsen was one of the most influential playwrights of the nineteenth century; fundamental to the realism movement and in the light of the modern-day obsession for reality T.V., “Hedda Gabler” proved to be an exciting production.
Chris Rankin who plays Percy Weasley in the “Harry Potter” films, plays Loevborg, the Romantic Lead, who is a reformed lethario and it is suggested that, in the past, he and Hedda have had an almost perverse relationship. “I’m thrilled to be playing Loevborg; it gives me an opportunity to explore the depth and range of such an interesting and diverse character,” says Chris. “It’s great to have such a challenging role”.
Salome
Following
their successful tour of “Hedda Gabler”, controversial theatre
company, Painted Horse have created yet another ground-breaking, cutting
edge gem. Salome;
From the opening dance in which Salome teases a prisoner she later discovers to be Jokanaan, the man she wants more than any other, to the closing scenes where Herodious’ jealousy and contempt for her daughter forces her to administer the coup de grace, we are transported through a world where manipulation, betrayal, passion and sex surround the power-struggle between good and evil in this gritty, no-holds-barred production of Oscar Wilde’s “Salome”.
The corrupt religious court of Herod is witness to grotesque and dark forces which fuels his vanity and ego and Salome’s ultimate self-destruction. A girl on the cusp of womanhood, Salome finds power in her new-found sexuality and manipulates Herod for her own amusement, but it is only in death and horror that Salome finds love.
