Set Design, Scenic Art, Illustration
Emma J. Pegg
God of Carnage
"The four performances are accomplished or more, and the set deserves to win prizes."
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"Emma Pegg has come up with an amazing cool set, all primary colours; and oddly elongated so that the pokey Lace Market stage looks positively spacious. Since this is newly-gentrified Brixton, there’s a window at the back through which can be seen a suitable London skyline. It’s deliberately too extreme to be realistic."
- Alan Geary, Nottingham Post, Oct 2013
"The set design is of a very modern apartment based on a black and white hop scotch pattern and it serves the play perfectly with the designer, Emma Pegg, creatively following through on Reza's staging notes of ' a living room, no realism, nothing superfluous. With some colour highlights this is a monochromatic world that according to the excellent programme notes "alludes to the barely concealed conflict between the characters." Deliberately, only the two artfully arranged vases of flowers and the red carpet and cushions bring any bright colour to the set."
- Phil Lowe, Oct 2013
Due Course
"More than anything, however, this is an ensemble piece. The seven performers - united as one amidst the earthy tones of the set and costumes - have brought these stories alive. They (and the five unseen members of the group – designers, composers and stage managers) have also cleverly woven the plays together to create a very enjoyable whole. Ensemble members are integral to the stories at all times – adding sound effects and atmosphere; becoming parts of the set; even, at one point brilliantly showing on-stage smoking isn’t necessary when you’ve got a pair of scissors.
The STEP UP Creatives and Director Tilly Branson have packed these 70 minutes full of creativity, ideas and innovation. Between each play, too, the group cleverly and comically thread through facts and figures about the East Midlands, while costume and set changes are effortlessly passed off."
- Richard Barfield, 7 July 2013
Women of Troy
"A striking set is dominated by Emma Pegg's huge painted broken female mask behind a three-tiered grey ziggurat."
- Alan Geary, Nottingham Post, May 2013
Thanks To His Sister
"We were really delighted by the production of Thanks to his Sister and I shall now carry vivid memories of it in my mind. As I reflect further this evening, I am filled with admiration for the way you all pulled the production together -- from the actors' individual attention in their interplay to details of expression and gestures, through all the contributory effects of costume, properties, sound and lighting, right down to the efficiency with which scene changes were swiftly managed."
- Robin Acland, playwright of 'Thanks To His Sister', in an email to Quirksome Theatre, 31 March 2013
"Thanks to the ever-dependable David Whalley for stage managing and providing invaluable support with all aspects of the production, and to designer Emma Pegg for building a beautifully quirky paper-based set."
- Dickie Garton, director of 'Thanks To His Sister' for Quirksome Theatre, writing on quirksometheatre.blogspot.co.uk, 15 April 2013
Mural at Beeston Fields Primary School
"I am writing on behalf of the staff and pupils of Beeston Fields Primary School to thank you for the voluntary work done by your students at our school.
Gabriel Wang and his team gave up hours of their spare time over the half term holiday to create a magnificent wall mural in our school hall. They were extremely well organised, hired their own equipment and brought their own materials. The design of the mural was sent to me beforehand so we could approve it. The whole job was carried out effectively. When the children saw the mural after the holiday they were extremely pleased and excited.
Students are often highlighted locally for the wrong reasons so it is my pleasure to tell you that this group of students have made a real contribution to the school community and we are all very impressed with their maturity and work ethic."
- Headteacher Hilary Mitchell, in a letter to the Student Volunteer Centre at The University of Nottingham, 2 March 2010
- Below is a scan of an article mentioning our mural in the Nottingham Evening Post, 25 February 2010
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Bedroom Farce
"The production is beautifully designed by Emma Pegg - presenting one of the best I've seen in a non-professional theatre - who brilliantly creates the three rooms with a procession of geometric green wallpaper to magnolia walls and upholstered blanket boxes and back again."
- Gareth Morgan, LeftLion, Feb 2015
Betrayal
"There’s much to be said for Emma Pegg’s set, which demonstrates a stylish versatility. In each not-so-dark blackout, it takes only a few moments for drawers to become beds, walls to become paintings, and chairs to stay as chairs. Grungy walls and peeling wallpaper serve as a constant reminder of the deteriorating state of all three relationships – the marriage, the affair, and the friendship between the men."
- Louis Greatorex, LeftLion, 22 June 2016
"The set, designed by Emma Pegg, was something else as well. Simple in it's visual aspect but, similar to the set of The Curious Incident Of the Dog In The Night Time, the set had hidden depths and this is what it made it so interesting. Parts of the set pulled out from itself and there were interchangeable sections as well, making it visually very interesting."
- Kev Castle, Nottingham Hospitals Radio, 20 June 2016