Unicorn Theatre 2023 / The Egg Bath Theatre Royal 2019, 2021
Set + Costume Design, collaborator
Performed by Tika Mu'tamir (2023), Caroline Garland / Oliver Langdon (2019 - 2021)
Directed by Tim Bell
Written by Kate Cross
Lighting Design by Dave Treanor
Puppet Design and maker Marc Parrett
Sound Design by Dinah Mullen
Production photography by Camilla Adams
- ★★★★★ Guardian
“This small wonder is full of surprises… this remarkable production mixes Bauhaus-style designs and jazz in an irresistible treat for under-fives... this is an unusually cool, even chic children’s production, but it’s also supremely welcoming and warm-hearted, with an understanding of its under-five audiences that is as sophisticated as its cultural references..”
“At the end, Anisha Fields’ stylish, clever set reveals a flurry of surprises. The blocks, cones and balls spill all over the stage and suddenly resemble a forest landscape. As the kids lose themselves in it, you couldn’t wish for a merrier Christmas scene”
Production Designer
Directed by Sonya Quayle
Production Company: Ex-Isle Films/Deerstalker Films
DOP John Craine
Costume Design by Holly Prescott
Bolton Octagon, Theatre by the Lake, 2022
Set + Costume Design
Directed by Atri Banerjee
By Barry Hines
Adapted for the stage by Robert Alan Evans
Lighting Design by Jamie Platt
Sound Design and Composition by Alexandra Faye Braithwaite
Production photography by Marc Brenner
“Visually arresting… the backdrop often feels like a performer in its own right. Anisha Fields’ simple but effective bisected front-room set offers glimpses of a cornfield and the wider world through its murky net curtains”
★★★★ The Stage
★★★★ Guardian ★★★★ Manchester Evening News ★★★★ Bolton News ★★★★ Manchester Theatres ★★★★ Opening Night
Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre, 2023
Designer
★★★★ Guardian
Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles? offers a fascinating and rather beautiful reminder of just how little you need in order to make compelling theatre… a night which puts the emphasis firmly on story-telling and offers up something very special, hugely helped by Anisha Fields’s excellent, spare and simple design”
Sussex world
“Anisha Fields’s devastatingly simple set resembles a sound studio too, as if Adam needs to record his mother’s witness statement properly… starkly compelling”
Plays International
Directed by Diyan Zora
Lighting Design by Joshua Gadsby
Video Design by Hayley Egan
Music by Robert Sword
Sound Design by George Dennis
Movement and assistant directed by Georgina Makhubele
Casting by Lotte Hines CDG
Voice and Dialect coach Shereen Ibrahim
Production Manager Lucy Guyver
Costume Supervisor Helen Flower
Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Supervisor Shelley Gray
Company Manager Francesca Finney
Deputy Stage Manager Olivia Roberts
Production photography by The Other Richard (additional photos by Anisha Fields)
Set & Costume Design
Mercury Colchester, 2022
“A sumptuously designed, modern reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic… The design and special effects of the show (by Anisha Fields) are awesome to behold. After Alice falls down the rabbit hole, there are disappearing and multiplying Alices; a giant Alice, tiny Alice, and a growing Alice – all wonderfully conceived. A vast array of scene changes reaches its zenith at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, a stylish composition of bronze, pink and powder blue.”
The Stage
By Lewis Carroll, adapted for the stage by Mike Kenny
Music by Ivan Stott
Directed by Emma Earle
Lighting Design by Joshua Gadsby
Sound Design by Beth Duke
Musical Direction & Arrangement by Jamie Noar
Movement Direction by Dan Canham
Costume Supervisor Chantelle Cox
Casting by Nicholas Hockaday
Early Opera Company / Buxton International Festival, Buxton Opera House 2021
Set + Costume Designer
Directed by Martin Constantine
Conducted by Christian Curnyn
Starring Sam Boden, Anna Dennis, Jorge Navarro Colorado, Edward Grint and David de Winter
Lighting Design by Ben Pickersgill
Stage Manager May Howard-Shigeno
Produced by Helen Wills
Photography credit: Genevieve Girling
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, 2023
Set + Costume Design
Superb set design… Vividly acted, directed and designed, this revival of his 2006 two-acter suggests it’s a masterpiece.
Arts Desk
Anisha Fields’ nicely grimy design has wallpaper whose wistful foliage suggests the green grass of home. There are pots, pans and a framed pope in the kitchen, a clutter of locks including an ornamental crucifix bolting the front door and a ghostly lipsticked bust evoking the sons’ absent mother.
Guardian
Directed by Nicky Allpress
Lighting Design by Lucía Sánchez Roldán
Composition and Sound Design by Joseff Harris
Fight Direction by Claire Llewellyn of Rc-Annie Ltd
Stage management Molly Tackaberry
Starring Emmet Byrne, Killian Coyle, Rachelle Diedericks and Dan Skinner
Hampstead Theatre, 2023
Set + Costume Design
By Joe White
Directed by Guy Jones
Lighting Design by Christopher Nairne
Sound Design and composition by Holly Khan
Movement Direction Iskandar R. Sharazuddin
Cast Alex Austin and Rebecca Humphries
★★★★★ Telegraph
★★★★★ Reviews Hub
★★★★★ London Theatre Reviews
★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ Financial Times
★★★★ iNews
★★★★ Express
★★★★ What’s on Stage
★★★★ Broadway World
★★★★ Ham and High
★★★★ Spy in the Stalls
★★★★ London Theatre 1
Southwark Playhouse, 2021
Set + Costume Design
Directed by Ed Madden
Written by Marek Horn
Lighting Design by Rajiv Pattani
Sound Design by Max Pappenheim
Production Photography by Helen Maybanks
Tobacco Factory Theatres, New Vic, and The Dukes Lancaster, 2018
Set + Costume Designer
Directed by Mike Tweddle
Musical Direction, Sound Design and music by Thomas Johnson
Lighting Design by Chris Swain
Starring Finn Hanlon, Amy-Leigh Hickman, Ted Reilly, Phoebe Thomas and Tristan Waterson
Tobacco Factory Theatres, Salisbury Playhouse, 2020 (Salisbury cancelled due to Covid-19)
Set + Costume Design
Directed by David Mercatali
Written by Edward Albee
Lighting Design by Chris Swain
Sound Design by Dinah Mullen
Costume Supervision by Jane Curnow
Starring Pooky Quesnel, Mark Meadows, Joseph Tweedale and Francesca Henry
Production Photography by Mark Dawson
“This fine revival by David Mercatali packs a considerable punch, with a stripped-back, no-holds-barred production and excellent performances from Albee’s quartet of combatants… Mercatali’s staging, designed by Anisha Fields, is in the round, presenting a low-lit living-room arena into which the hosts from hell doggedly come out swinging”
★★★★ The Times
“The in-the-round staging, with designs by Anisha Fields, works well. We stay in the 60s front room, littered with books, coats and booze. It feels, often in contrast to what's being said onstage, very real”
A co-production by the egg and Travelling Light, 2018-2020
Set Designer
Written and Performed by Toby Thompson
Directed by Toby Thompson
Lighting Design by George Seal
Sound Design by Jonathan Everett
Co-comissioned by Brighton Festival and Imaginate.
Winner of the Showcase Victor Award, IPAY 2020
“Designer Anisha Fields has created something very special here and the effect is magical”
★★★★ Stage Talk
“Jazzy Hermann Hesse tale is stunning… scattered around him on stage are wooden houses of different sizes, cleverly designed by Anisha Fields. Some conceal smaller houses with roofs that open to reveal props; one house pours sand out of its chimney, much to Aggie’s delight. Another home pops up inside a book”
“The set design was nothing short of magical…. a brilliant set, where light and sounds design were able to create the magic necessary to bring this story to life”
★★★★★ Bristol365
Tobacco Factory Theatres, 2018
Set + Costume Design
Directed by Adele Thomas
Lighting Design by Matt Graham
Sound Design by Max Pappenheim
Movement and Fight Director Kev McCurdy
Costume Supervisor Jess Hardy
Starring Aaron Anthony, Jack Riddiford, Simon Armstrong, Kirris Riviere, Maggie Bain, Katy Stephens, Cait Davis, Joseph Tweedale, Jonathan McGuinness and Laura Waldren
Production Photography: Mark Dawson
“terrifyingly good from start to finish.…this exploration of the corrupting power of ambition, is visually and audibly disturbing throughout”.
★★★★★ The Fix
★★★★ The Stage
Tobacco Factory Theatres, 2018
Written by Arthur Miller
Directed by Mike Tweddle
Set + Costume Design
Lighting Design by Matt Graham
Sound Design by Max Pappenheim
Movement and Fight Director Kev McCurdy
Costume Supervisor Jess Hardy
Starring Aaron Anthony, Jack Riddiford, Simon Armstrong, Mark Letheren, Kirris Riviere, Katy Stephens, Joseph Tweedale, and Laura Waldren
Production Photography: Mark Dawson
“This is one of the most exciting pieces of work seen on a Bristol stage in a long time. Don’t miss it.”
- Bristol247
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Redgrave Theatre, 2017
Costume Design
Directed by Bill Alexander
Set Design by Eleanor Bull