Incorporating live footage into stage productions is a risky enterprise, often with limited reward. Here, Craig Wilkinson's video design is fluid and beautifully crisp. A large single screen takes up the width of the stage, and is set at a height where the audience can comfortably switch between watching the actors in front of them, or the digital depictions in crystal-clear resolution.
THE AUSTRALIAN

"Lighting designer Ben Hughes and video designer Craig Wilkinson craft a visual landscape that is both innovative and immersive, heightening the emotional impact of every scene. "
ARTSHUB

"The technical aspects of the show are just as impressive, and unlike anything I had seen before. The use of camera work, with close-up shots of the actors projected onto the stage backdrop, made it feel like this beautiful mix of theatre and cinema — artsy but without pretension."
THE COURIER-MAIL

"The video work is brilliant, giving us close ups of the actors and allowing us to see their full expressions in this emotional work."
IN REVIEW

"The innovative use of video cameras to shoot live footage that dominated the stage’s backdrop was so impressive."
STAGE WHISPERS

"Craig Wilkinson’s live video feeds from an on-stage camera and towering projections do more than magnify the characters: they magnify the stakes. One moment we’re swept up in a panoramic Brisbane sky; the next we’re drawn into the intimacy of a trembling lip or a sidelong glance."
THE GUARDIAN

"Renee Mulder’s set design allows Craig Wilkinson’s video design and cinematography to effectively weave video throughout the work with choreographic precision, in a way that captures and also elevates the human stories being shared through the creation of an intimacy at odds with the Playhouse Theatre’s size. At times, performers work in live feed to an up-close-and-personal centre-stage camera that pre-show reminds members of the audience of their investment in things. At others, moving on-stage cameras (camera operator Tnee Dyer) project real-time footage of the actors onto a screen at the back of the stage, which gives the work an additional, unexpected depth. The variety of approaches means that, despite their commonality, the stories being shared are never repetitive."
BLUE CURTAINS BRISBANE

"Craig Wilkinson’s video design and Tnee Dyer’s camera work are tightly choreographed and often strikingly beautiful."
THE CONVERSATION