Japanese Playwright Hideki Noda’s satirical adaptation of Richard III sees William Shakespeare get put on trial. Jumping between the Battle of Bosworth, a court room and the surrealist ‘Ikebana flower world’, the set design was inspired by the work of philosopher Nikolai Fyodorov. Set in a transformative museum diorama where the past and present simultaneously exist, it explored the value society places on artefacts of culture and the manipulation of history.

The centrepiece of the design is an exhibit diorama that runs horizontally across the stage, creating a passageway for actors to move through. A painted cyclorama depicting a forest, inspired by Japanese landscape paintings, is the backdrop for the entirety of the play. Lighting is used to distinguish different worlds: in one image, pink light washes over the cyclorama while a character in a kimono traverses the exhibit box. The second image depicts Richard III surrounded by a collection of taxidermy animals. In the third image, the cyclorama is lowered at the climax of the play to reveal the fly lines and architecture of the stage - revealing the artifice of theatre.