Venue: Hull Truck Theatre Company, Hull
Director: Alice Bartlett
Dates: September - October 2001

Confusions consists of five individual one-act plays, loosely connected by the theme of loneliness. The set needed to move swiftly between each play, accommodating the changes of mood and of style. I reduced the setting down to one space within which key pieces of furniture transformed to reflect the needs of each play, echoing the loose connection of the overall piece. I heightened the surrealist quality of the plays, until the final play is set in a Beckett-like landscape with elements of the set suspended in a black space, and the set cluttered with the broken remains of the furniture.

The sense [in the final play] of fractured lives is heightened by having props from the previous sets positioned around at crazy angles. On the whole, Jessica Stack's simple set works well'
Lynda Murdin, Yorkshire Post

Confusions calls for five entirely different sets for the five acts. Nevertheless the design is excellent. Even the visible set changes, potentially so awkward, manage to provoke a spontaneous round of applause. The physical debris of previous scenes, which remains like a snake which has shed it's skin, somehow lends the play as a whole a much needed sense of unity.
A.N. Appleyard, Hullfire