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Kezi Ferguson
Kezi Ferguson is a designer of set and costume for performance from Wales with a background in sculpture and fine art. Her practice is poetically informed, blending sombre tones with bold gestures to curate well-formed evocative moments. She loves using contrast throughout her work.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Music by Benjamin Britten based on the work by William Shakespeare
Environmentally conscious design for Richard Burton Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
2024
• Director: Matthew Eberhardt
• Conductor: James Southall
• Set Designer: Kezi Ferguson
• Costume Design: Yumu (Moon) Lin
• Lighting Design: Caitlin Park
Passion, magic, and mistaken identities. Fairy or human, love's journey is never straight forward.
This three-act opera, adapted by Britten from Shakespeare’s classic, is loaded with vitality; it’s a smash of bouncy and lulling melodies blended with humour and distress. This energy was something that I was keen to capture through the set design. By filling the space with layers of colourful hammocks, we created a textured environment that could frame, conceal and respond to the movements of the characters and music.
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Richard Burton Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
2025
• Director: Jonathan Munby
• Set Design: Kezi Ferguson
• Costume Design: Natalia Hamlin
• Lighting Design: Evie Thursfield
• Performers: Richard Burton Company
Two lovers. Two families: encased in a long-standing feud. Does love hold any power when thwarted by the law, failed schemes and even death?
The idea of barriers and division was something that I was instantly interested in. With the industrial nature of the theatre architecture lending itself to the themes of violence and power, I curated a space where the pressure between vast and intimate moments were intersected by an imposing graffiti plastered wall. The doorways offer a portal between the worlds and a device to frame the unfolding subplots.
My Mañana Comes
By Elizabeth Irwin
Speculative design for dance
• Director: Gus Hodgson
• Set and Costume Designer: Kezi Ferguson
Just beyond the elegant dining room of an Upper East Side restaurant, four busboys angle for shifts, pray for tips, and cling to dreams of life beyond their dingy back-of-house grind.
Drawing on the tension between the characters and the constant choreography of a busy kitchen service area, I was interested in producing a space where movement and constant flow is central. Highlighting the similarities between personalities during moments of division, the use of images, projected onto the extractor vents, creates a window to flick back and forth through the story’s timeline.
Il Prigioniero
Music and libretto by Luigi Dallapiccola
Speculative design for one act opera
• Director: Isabelle Carlean-Jones
• Set and Costume Design: Kezi Ferguson
A story of violence, captivity and ambivalent relations between a victim and jailer. Il Prigioniero offers a lens through which to redefine betrayal, fear and misplaced hope.
Responding to the feverish nature of Dallapiccola’s music, I was keen to develop a sense of sombre hopelessness and frantic captivity for this design. The costumes were an exploration of traditional formality with rigid shapes and flowing elements reacting to the dramatic changes in the music. The set - two curved walls both independently revolving - mimics a maze of never-ending routes with the
way of escape constantly shifting.
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