Property News · October 22, 2016

‘My sofa's named after Anna Chancellor’: theatre designer Tom Scutt’s London home


In the bijou home of the designer behind countless must-see plays, objects from his own sets take centre stageThe industrial apartment that theatre designer Tom Scutt calls home is tucked away on an unassuming street in east London. Flitting around his kitchen making coffee – and it’s exactly the sort of kitchen you see in coffee adverts, all open shelves and aspiration – you’d never guess from his breezy chat that Scutt is horrifically jetlagged. Later, he’ll show me a rooster he drew at 3am in the absence of sleep. It’s brilliant, detailed and, given that the rooster is wearing a wrestling singlet, a little leftfield – much like Scutt himself.The jetlag is due to Scutt’s return from New York, where he designed his second MTV Video Music Awards show, and where he’s preparing for the opening of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, transferring to Broadway after its sell-out run at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Scutt’s CV reads like a checklist of every must-see play in recent years: Constellations by Nick Payne, starring Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins in London and Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson on Broadway; The Deep Blue Sea at the National Theatre, starring Helen McCrory; and the Almeida production of Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III, for which Scutt landed a Tony nomination this year after its transfer to New York. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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