“Designer Isla Shaw’s glorious costumes and set have a fifties feel about them with added flamboyance. The flexible set features an iron spiral staircase and grand piano, movable set pieces suggesting venues, projections and plenty of colour to delight the senses.”

“With Isla Shaw's imaginative costumes and some spectacular wigs..”

“Isla Shaw, whose costumes and set are witty and impressive – her sight gags playing on the idea of how big a banana or chocolate would be to a mouse got an equally big laugh on press night.”

“Isla Shaw’s delicious costume design of larger-than-life sparkles and neon brights works wonderfully alongside the simple set design, clever projections and special effects.”

“Isla Shaw’s set design, with its spiral staircase, branches and piano, feeds that imagination too, switching smoothly between hotel and home, outdoors and indoors, and it becomes even more effective when the Grand High Witch transforms the Boy and Bruno into mice, bringing a different scale into play with large pieces of food etcetera.”

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