Elle Maxwell-Wood

Pale Green Nothing

Pale Green Nothing (2019) at Seven Arts, Leeds

Company: Monkey Don’t Theatre

Director: Penny Bel

Written by: Ryan Freda

Sound Design: Stuart Mellor

Designer: Elle Maxwell-Wood

Make-Up Artist: Maria Cretu

Lighting Design: Bobby Gilman

In a hospital ward in North Wales, a patient refuses to die; a man refuses to leave and a novice nurse questions why she came here in the first place.

Paperboy

Paperboy (2019) at The Lyric Theatre, Belfast

Company: British Youth Music Theatre Production

Directors: Steven Dexter & Dean Johnson

Book & Lyrics by: Andrew Doyle

Music by: Duke Special

Music Director: Matthew Reeve

Choreographer: Julia Cave

Designer: Natalia Alvarez

Assistant Designer: Elle Maxwell-Wood

Photography: Chris Hill

Adapted from bestselling memoir ‘Paperboy’ by Tony Macaulay

Within this House 'Digital Artefact'

Within this House ‘Digital Artefact’ (2018) at Temple Newsam, Leeds

In collaboration with Temple Newsam, Leeds Museums and Galleries and the LITE Project SignalSpace: Mobile Phones and Digital Creativity led by Dr Maria Kapsali and Dr Scott Palmer.

Creative Team: Elle Maxwell-Wood, Fran Partlett, Alannah Marcheka and Bethany Rowley

Photography: Elle Maxwell-Wood

Within this House is an augmented journey through your mobile device, through the gardens of Temple Newsam, which invites participants on a multi-sensory exploration of Lady Wood’s World War One convalescent hospital, which was situated on the site in 1917. Through immersive binaural audio, emotive text, drawings, and images of Temple Newsam layering together then and now, and visuals from the performance by the same name, the experience offers a reflective and intimate insight into this specific place, from the women’s point of view.

For more information about this specific tour and the wider project please visit: https://signalspace.leeds.ac.uk/within-this-house-temple-newsham-house-may-2018/

Within this House

Within this House (2018) at Temple Newsam, Leeds

Company: University of Leeds Production in collaboration with Temple Newsam, Leeds Museums and Galleries and Ignite Researchers

Devised by: Dr Scott Palmer and University of Leeds BA Theatre and Performance Undergraduates

Designer: Elle Maxwell-Wood

Creative Team: Elle Maxwell-Wood, Ellie Thompson, Fran Partlett, Alannah Marchewka and Rachel Knapton

Photography: Elle Maxwell-Wood

Within this House was a participatory, site-specific performance which set out to explore and reveal some of the hidden histories of Lady Wood’s World War One convalescent hospital, which was situated at Temple Newsam in 1917. This durational piece took place over three days and invited the audience to observe and interact with the daily routines and narratives of the hospital and its occupants, the scenography offering relational encounters with the characters.

Third Space

Third Space (2018) at Stage@Leeds

Company: Leeds MA Performance Design

Designed and Directed: Leeds MA Performance Designers

Photography: Elle Maxwell-Wood

Third Space was a collective collaboration which set out to create an immersive, design-led performance, inviting the audience to explore themes of journey, absence and reflection.

‘Our theatre is likewise a repository of dreams, emotions, memories and evocation; it should also be a gathering place for society to come together to dream and remember’ (Aronson, 2005)

MA Collaborative Experiment

MA Collaborative Experiment (2017) in Stage@Leeds Alec Clegg

Leading Creative Team: Clara Pop, Elle Maxwell-Wood, QianYu Lyu

Photography: Elle Maxwell-Wood

Within our MA praxis group, we designed and devised a series of happenings, to explore the different narratives created through playful, spontaneous experimentation, using scenographic elements such as lighting, sound, objects, costume and the body. We wanted to use objects, predominately costume and props, texture and shape as starting points. A beautiful love story of movement unfolded.