David Salter | Director

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Manchester School of Theatre

 

Lara has designed a number of my productions and consistently shown herself to be a highly talented and versatile designer. Her work is imaginative, beautiful and playful, and she excels in both set and costume. To work with, Lara is tenacious, open and full of creative solutions. Collaborating with her, I feel safe in the knowledge that the work will be of distinction, in detail and quality.

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Stefan Janski | Opera Director

 

RNCM

 

Lara is a serious, bright, cutting edge, exciting designer. Pro active, provocative, well read and researched with stimulating ideas and an essential  sense of humour.  A joy with whom to share creative juices.

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Caroline Clegg | Director

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I have worked with Lara on many shows ranging from drama, musical, and opera and in many different settings from educational institutions to touring, West End and regional tours to country house operas and she is my first port of call when I need a creative and inventive designer.   Her flair is second to none, she is original, authentic, always delivers to the brief, on time and in budget.    She has a fabulous personality that can cope with any situation and I would highly recommended her to anyone.

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Helena Kaut-Howson | Director

 

Lara did a brilliant job designing 'Innocence'. She created an open, flexible space, accommodating within its simple lines a multitude of locations and a number of stunning surprises. The design incorporated a very clever use of video projection and was as witty as it was powerful and expressive. It was in perfect keeping with the 21st Century urban feel of the play and with the poetic, experimental style of the writing.

 

I was very impressed with Lara’s ability to embrace an unfamiliar aesthetic and with her extraordinary resourcefulness.

 

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Liz Postlethwaite | Director

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Lara has an imaginative and creative approach to her work and is intuitive and sensitive in her approach to text and space, inspiring the people she works with to view things from a new and exciting perspective.  She works in a brilliantly collaborative way and it has been a pleasure to embark upon creative journeys with her where big ideas have been key and where her ingenuity and skill as a designer have gone on to make these ideas possible in reality.

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David Shirley | Programme Leader Manchester School of Theatre

 

I can say with absolute conviction that the quality of Lara's work is outstanding. Sensitive, imaginative and highly resourceful. Lara always manages to combine the creative demands of the play/director with her own artistic vision and intuitive insight. Whether working with innovative and experimental minimalist texts or highly ornate and complex ‘well made plays’, she is always keen to bring new interpretative concepts and ideas that prove enormously inspiring and enabling for the creative team.

 

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