Quay Brothers
Directors/Designers
Film, TV & Theatre
Film, TV & Theatre
Theatre and Opera: The Birthday Party (Harold Pinter Theatre), An Evening At The Talkhouse (National Theatre), Theatre Of The World (Amsterdam/ L.A Philharmonic), Love For Three Oranges (Opera North/ENO), A Flea In Her Ear (Old Vic), Mazeppa (Bregenz Festival/Nederland Opera), Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (National Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Almeida), The Chairs (Royal Court) and Baalaams Fest (Weiner Festwochen), The Cricket Recovers (Aldeburgh/Almeida) and Paul Bunyan (Bregenz/Luzern).
Ballets: Life is a Dream (Rambert), Dybbuk (The Place), The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (Malmö Dramatiska Theatre), Cupid and Psyche (Royal Danish Ballet), all choreographed by Kim Brandstrup.
Films: A hybrid variety of puppet animation short films: Street of Crocodiles; In Absentia, Maska, Kafka's Metamorphosis. Live-Action films: Institute Benjamenta & Pianotuner of Earthquakes. Documentary Films: Anamorphosis; The Phantom Museum; Through the Weeping Glass; Inventiorium of Traces.
Television: Ballet films with Will Tuckett: Duet and Sandman. Installation Pieces: Castle Belsay The Coffin of a Servant’s Journey and for Opera North Eurydice, She So Beloved. The décors from their puppet films Dormitorium is currently on international touring exhibition.
On Deciphering The Pharmacist’s Prescription For Lip-Reading Puppets - a recent retrospective of their work at MoMA in New York, then transferred to The Eye in Amsterdam, to CCCB in Barcelona and presently La Casa Encendida in Madrid.