Working in the Design department of The Lyceum Theatre was an in tense learning curve. The department was run as a co-opperative with a group of designers under a head of design who rotated the design work and also worked on the painting and prop making of each other’s productions In addition there were two splendid carpenters and an absolutely amazing prop maker. When I arrived the Head of design was Abdul E’kader Farrah who had developed a of very three dimensional house style and an incredibly high standard of carving and finishing but no illusionistic scene painting in the traditional sense. Later Geoffrey Scott became Head of Design and the style changed somewhat. While there I designed three productions, all for Richard Eyre ,who was the associate director along with Clive Perry. They were O’Casey’s “Juno and the Paycock”, Richard Eyre’s “The Ha-Ha” and Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”.
