Jaimie Simpson
Jaimie Simpson
After working in and around London painting backdrops for 'Rare Productions' and scenic painting with Cleo Pettitt many years ago, Jaimie Simpson endeavoured to put aside her creative side and become a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit. Many years later, an itch had to be scratched, and she has now graduated from her Performance Design major, ready to pursue further study, and actively seek working experience as a Theatrical Designer.
Holding multiple exhibitions in art and photography, prior to study, and working with teaching different painting materials at Leura Park winery, there are many avenues of creativity that directed Jaimie towards Theatre Design. This artistic experience culminates into imaginative, resourceful and innovative designs encapsulating a depth and breadth of expressive knowledge.
Through a disturbance of the natural order, Macbeth’s relationship to power leads to the chaos surrounding his reign and, ultimately, to his fateful retribution. In an illusory space, beats of dream-like images dynamically isomorph to produce a hyperreal rhythm echoing the thematic timelessness of these disturbances. This rhythm echoes the iambic pentameter diction, and implies chaos juxtaposed with balance.
Timelessness resounds in the design through revolving Baroque music intertwined in a modern context. The lighting design takes a supportive role through the chiaroscuro, revealing and concealing the action on the stage just as the protagonists reveal and conceal their true characters. The costume also echoes the past while relating thematic action to the present day.
The overall proposed design responds to the text through its isomorphic malleability, from symmetry to asymmetry, revealing and concealing the disturbance of the natural order and the fateful justice that unfolds.