Ruari Murchison
Past Productions
- The Secret Garden – Designer
- Arthur & George – Designer
- Cling To Me Like Ivy – Designer
- His Dark Materials Part 2 – Designer
- His Dark Materials Part 1 – Designer
- The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe – Designer
Ruari has designed productions at Washington DC, The Stratford Festival (Canada), Stuttgart (Germany), Luzern (Switzerland), Haaelm (Holland), Elsinore (Denmark) and many more regional theatres in the United Kingdom.
Recent Design Credits Include:Mappa Mundi, Frozen, The Waiting Room, The Red Balloo (National Theatre); Titus Andronicus (Royal Shakespeare Company); Toyer (Arts Theatre); The Solid Gold Cadillac (Garrick); A busy Day (Lyric Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue); Peggy Sue Got Married(Shaftsbury Theatre); The Snowman (Peacock Theatre); The Three Sisters On Hope Street, The Glass Room, Gone To LA (Hamstead Theatre); Henry IV parts I and II (Washington Shakespeare Company, USA); West Side Story, The Sound Of Music (Stratford Festival Canada); Hamlet (Elsinore, Denmark); Othello, Macbeth, Electricity, Medea, The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, Alice In Wonderland (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Mrs Warren’s Profession, The Threepenny Opera, An Enemy Of The People (Theatr Clwyd); Uncle Vanya, The Life Of Galileo, A Doll’s House, The David Hare Trilogy (Racing Demon, The Absence Of War, Murmuring Judges TMA Best Design Nomination 2003); The Tempest, Macbeth, The Merchant Of Venice, Hamlet, Frozen, Jumpers, Nativity, A Wedding Story (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Intemperance and Tartuffe (Everyman and Playhouse Theatres, Liverpool); Copenhagen and Alfie (Palace Theatre, Watford); and Tartuffe (The Rose Theatre, Kingston).
National tours of Twelfth Night, Hamlet, The Merchant Of Venice, Romeo And Juliet, A Wedding Story, A Doll’s House, Dracula, Little Sweet Thing, The Snowman.
Opera credits include: Der Freischutz (Finnish National Opera/Opera Cava); Peter Grimes, Cosi Fan Tutte (Luzerner Opera, Switzerland); La Cenerentola, Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (Garsington); L’Italiana In Algeri (Buxton); Les Pelerins De La Mecque, ZaZa (Wexford); The Magic Flute, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Covent Garden Festival).
Ballet credits include: Landschaft Und Erinnerung (Stuttgart Ballet, Germany); The Protecting Veil (Birmingham Royal Ballet) and Le Festin De L’Araignee (Royal Ballet School – Royal Opera House gala).