The Tempest / The Guardian
“In Becs Andrews’ design, Prospero’s cell resembles the back room of a charity shop, piled high with mounds of unsorted jumble and polyester shirts hung out to dry. Tyrone Huggins’s Prospero is a make-do-and-mend type of magician with an enchanted . . .
The Tempest / The Stage
“The isle is full of laundry. For this Northern Stage co-production with Improbable, designer Becs Andrews has curtained the stage with shirts and mountained it with trousers. The landscape she has created is exciting to the eye; canopied with fabric, . . .
The Tempest / British Theatre Guide
“Becs Andrews’s design is a treat for the eyes: three huge mounds of clothing of all colours and styles against which the cast can lean and blend in or into which they can tunnel to create, for example, Caliban’s cave, . . .
The Tempest / The Oxford Times
“This new joint Oxford Playhouse, Northern Stage, and Improbable Theatre production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest throws up a full-scale, Force 10 storm right from the start, just one of a series of spectacular scenic effects by designer Becs Andrews.” Giles . . .
The Tempest / The Reviews Hub
“It is the set that is the production’s most memorable aspect, however. Heaps of clothes lie strewn about the stage, here and there coalescing into great mounds, from which characters emerge, spirit-like. It is the world’s most disorganised jumble sale. . . .
Cassandra / The Arts Desk
“conveyed with economy and style. The office sequences, in particular, with their gleaming white workstations and bright clothes (design: Becs Andrews) are highly enjoyable, the ensemble striking crisp poses and wrapping and unwrapping their limbs neatly around the furniture” Jenny . . .
Through His Teeth / Opera Today
“Can this be the best British opera in years? Luke Bedford’s Through His Teeth at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre is exceptional. Drop everything and go.” “Distorted values, distorted reality. The designs (Becs Andrews) capture the psychological dislocation implicitly . . .
Through His Teeth / The Observer
“Short, pithy and smart, Through His Teeth managed that elusive feat of being at once gripping and amusing. The conductor Sian Edwards, Chroma, Victoria Simmonds (the third cast member), director Bijan Sheibani and designer Becs Andrews all contributed to a stylish, provocative, . . .