Creating a set that can be used across two very unique venues can be a challenge, especially when working with bespoke scenic art. This is how we did it.
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Same production, two different stages.
A small and quiet light is a new play by Stephanie Street about Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, a British secret agent sent into occupied France during the Second World War. The production was a co-production between Chichester Festival Theatre and the Orange Tree Theatre. It premiered at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester in August 2026, then transferred to the Orange Tree in Richmond, running from 21 September to 24 October.
The key challenge with this project was created a scene that could adapt to two different spaces. Scena built the set to Anna Yates’ design and adapted it so the production could move between the two venues.
Moving between venues meant modifying the set for each space. We added a seating area, a flown surtitle frame and a floor grille.
The biggest job was the painted floor, led by scenic artist Zoe Parsons. Anna Yates’ design started as a digital collage. Many separate illustrations were stacked on top of one another and faded into each other, so no single image stands alone. The challenge was turning that layered digital artwork into a painted floor at full scale.
The team began by mapping the collage out across the floor, working out where each illustration sat and how the layers overlapped. They then drew and painted every element by hand. Once the painting was complete, the team scraped the surface back to give it a scratched finish. The aim was for the images to look as if they had been scratched out one on top of another, with traces of earlier layers showing through.
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