Evolution Labs 2023: Pygmalion & The Master Builder

This year we have exciting emerging directors Ashen Gupta and Ellis collaborate with third-year BA Theatre Design students from Wimbledon College of Arts, Shahaf Beer and Andrew Yu to re-lens 30 minute extracts from two classic plays.

Ashen and Shahaf take on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion set it in modern-day Cambridge University. Ellis and Andrew place Henrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder in a contemporary architecture firm.

Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Ashen Gupta
Designed by Shahaf Beer

The Master Builder
by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Ellis
Designed by Andrew Yu

Evolution Labs was set up in 2016 by Young Lyric and the BA Theatre Design course at Wimbledon College of Arts as a collaborative opportunity for early career directors and designers to meet and co-create new work.