Mayou Trikerioti
Set & Costume Designer
60 designers
57 projects
Award winning designer, dramaturg and facilitator. She has worked for major theatres and festivals including the Young Vic, Rose, Garrick and Harold Pinter, Greek National Theatre, Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus. She loves working on all scales and her portfolio ranges from plays that enjoyed long runs to one-off, site-specific performances and from West End shows to fringe gems as well as community art projects that engage local youth and residents. Mayou also designs for films featured at major festivals such as Venice FF, Berlinale and Toronto IFF. Recently, she designed the costumes for prolific director David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future and Anthony Chen’s Drift. She is a founding member of Change of Art, a community arts project created by theatre practitioners and artists. During the pandemic, she created the international Facebook group Reinventing the Performing Arts post COVID-19 aiming to connect theatre professionals and discuss current global issues. Since 2019 she has also worked in advertising as creative director. This is Mayou’s third time as exhibitor in PQ.
Before designing the performance we visited Cephalonia, absorbed the light and air, visited museums and talked to World War II veterans. We needed to visually condense locations and stories that were very real and burst with beauty and horror. Theatre magic in the bare minimum to tell the story, yet stretched so that it feels complete and rich. So a vastly empty space was born with a copper wall precariously standing on a large rock. It was the sun, the war and the crumbled lives, as well as projection surface. Chairs and wash bowls were shipped from Greece. Pots of fresh basil and herbs were planted in old oil tins. Costumes were also stripped back to bare minimum. The ensemble worked with extremely quick changes, where a villager had to become a goat and then a soldier. The rehearsal period was about providing the director and the actors with as many toys (be it props, hats, bags or costumes) as possible in order to help them navigate, explore and devise the storytelling.
Author: Louis de Bernières
Adaptation: Rona Munro
Director: Melly Still
Composer: Harry Blake
Set & Costume Designer: Mayou Trikerioti
Lighting Designer: Malcolm Rippeth
Sound Designer: Jon Nicholls
Projection Designer: OD Vision
Photos: Marc Brenner
Before designing the performance we visited Cephalonia, absorbed the light and air, visited museums and talked to World War II veterans. We needed to visually condense locations and stories that were very real and burst with beauty and horror. Theatre magic in the bare minimum to tell the story, yet stretched so that it feels complete and rich. So a vastly empty space was born with a copper wall precariously standing on a large rock. It was the sun, the war and the crumbled lives, as well as projection surface. Chairs and wash bowls were shipped from Greece. Pots of fresh basil and herbs were planted in old oil tins. Costumes were also stripped back to bare minimum. The ensemble worked with extremely quick changes, where a villager had to become a goat and then a soldier. The rehearsal period was about providing the director and the actors with as many toys (be it props, hats, bags or costumes) as possible in order to help them navigate, explore and devise the storytelling.
Award winning designer, dramaturg and facilitator. She has worked for major theatres and festivals including the Young Vic, Rose, Garrick and Harold Pinter, Greek National Theatre, Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus. She loves working on all scales and her portfolio ranges from plays that enjoyed long runs to one-off, site-specific performances and from West End shows to fringe gems as well as community art projects that engage local youth and residents. Mayou also designs for films featured at major festivals such as Venice FF, Berlinale and Toronto IFF. Recently, she designed the costumes for prolific director David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future and Anthony Chen’s Drift. She is a founding member of Change of Art, a community arts project created by theatre practitioners and artists. During the pandemic, she created the international Facebook group Reinventing the Performing Arts post COVID-19 aiming to connect theatre professionals and discuss current global issues. Since 2019 she has also worked in advertising as creative director. This is Mayou’s third time as exhibitor in PQ.
Author: Louis de Bernières
Adaptation: Rona Munro
Director: Melly Still
Composer: Harry Blake
Set & Costume Designer: Mayou Trikerioti
Lighting Designer: Malcolm Rippeth
Sound Designer: Jon Nicholls
Projection Designer: OD Vision
Photos: Marc Brenner
