A significant collection of lighting designs, plots, and scripts (some annotated) covering Nick Chelton's work for the RSC, National Theatre, Almeida Theatre, London West End and other regional theatres, the Abbey Theatre Dublin, and some corporate promotional events.
Nick Chelton lighting design archive
Archive Collection
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- ReferenceGB 3407 nc
- Dates of Creation1970s - 1990s
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical DescriptionTwo four-draw filing cabinets with hanging files plus archive boxes and periodical boxes of production scripts
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Born in London, Nick Chelton has designed lighting for numerous plays and musicals in the West End, at the RSC, the National Theatre and the Almeida.
For the Abbey Theatre Dublin he designed the lighting for Chamber Music, Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme, Angels In America, She Stoops To Folly, The Secret Fall Of Constance Wilde, By The Bog Of Cats and Dolly West's Kitchen.
At the ENO he has lit over 20 productions including Rusalka (Dvorak), Le nozze di Figaro and Die Zauberflote (Mozart). For the Royal Opera House Covent Garden he designed lighting for The Rake's Progress (Stravinsky), Macbeth (Verdi), Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saens), Samson (Handel), Yevgeny Onegin (Tchaikovsky) and many others.
He also designed opera productions for opera houses in Paris, Lyon, Geneva, Monte Carlo, Amsterdam, Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Turin, Venice, Frankfurt, Berlin, Sydney, Chicago and Houston.
Arrangement
Material is arranged alphabetically by production in a series of hanging files filling 8 drawers of two filing cabinets. The material in each file has not yet been fully catalogued, but the productions, and a list of the accompanying scripts, can be found on the College Library's Special Collections page.
Access Information
To access the material please contact the Library: library@bruford.ac.uk
Acquisition Information
The archive was presented to Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance by Nick Chelton himself.
Custodial History
The archive was acquired in 2012.
Location of Originals
The original materials are housed in filing cabinets in the "Library of light" anteroom within the College Library.