A Light Entertainment by Simon Corder
with original music by Will Todd
Category Archives: Lighting
Lighting Design Awards 2006
Bough 1 by Simon Corder won the ‘special projects’ category of the Lighting Design Awards 2006 – it was the first of what was to become a series of brick wall mounted fluorescent artworks.

Where The Night Goes
‘Where The Night Goes’, was the first album by electronic chamber group Infantjoy, released in 2006.
Continue readingManon Lescaut – Parma, Valencia, Bilbao
Opera by Giacomo Puccini. Presented by Teatro Regio di Parma, November 2005. The production was revived at Palau De Les Arts, Valencia in December 2014 – conducted by Plácido Domingo. Manon Lescaut was revived again by ABAO-OLBE in Bilbao, February 2016.
Continue readingView Suspended – Shanghai
View Suspended is an installation piece by Dutch artist Paul Veroude. It was presented at the Shanghai Motor Show in 2005, and again at the British International Motor Show in 2006.
Continue readingThe Bough Series
Three brick wall mounted fluorescent artworks by Simon Corder.
Continue readingThe Blackened Man
Opera by Will Todd, with a libretto by Ben Dunwell. The work was produced in workshop form at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio in September 2002 with the first fully-staged production at the Buxton Festival in July 2004.
Continue readingOlivier Awards 2004

Simon Corder was nominated for an Oliver Award in 2004, for his lighting of Hitchcock Blonde, a new play by Terry Johnson. William Dudley won best set design.

Hitchcock Blonde – London
A new play by Terry Johnson, premiered at The Royal Court Theatre in 2003, and transferred to the Lyric Theatre in London’s West End.
Continue reading3 – Huddersfield & Tour
A new dance piece by The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs premiered in October 2001 at the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield.
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