Current or Future Productions
Production: Treasure Island - Online
Location: Exeter Northcott
Company: Le Navet Bete
Director: John Nicholson
Dates: 11 - 30 January 2021
Link: www.exeternorthcott.co.uk/events/treasure-island-online-premiere
Production: The Honey Man
Location: Exeter Northcott
Company: Exeter Northcott
Director: Alix Harris
Dates: Spring 2021
Link: www.exeternorthcott.co.uk/events/the-honey-man
Press
'Treasure Island', The Atheneum Plymouth
December 2019 - January 2020
Fi Russell’s design is particularly impressive. The versatile set sees the stage transform from the Admiral Benbow bar to deck of the Jolly Todger to Ben Gunn’s island shack. It all makes for a nugget of lovingly crafted seasonal silliness – a real treasure.
The Stage, Roger Malone
Fi Russell’s superbly simple but versatile set becomes pub, ship and island with a swift fold, tuck or slide while silhouettes and Looola Nicholson’s puppets are used to great effect.
British Theatre Guide, Karen Bussell
'Velveteen Rabbit', Exeter Phoenix
December 2019 - January 2020
The simplicity of the set was truly innovative and beautiful. The minimalist set and lighting deny the theatre completely of all its frills and superficiality. It is the perfect rendition of the idyllic Christmas home, allowing the audience to focus on the dynamic acting and the important, universal themes. In its simplicity, it completely trusts its audience to use their imaginations, play-act the story with the cast, and join them on the magical and enchanting journey of Alice and Rabbit.
The audience was left enthralled by their quick costume changes
Razzmag, Miriam Higgs
'The Three Musketeers', UK Tour
May 2019 - Ongoing
Fi Russell's costumes add to the childhood games theme with double sided dinner-lady tabbards for musketeers and royal gaurds, as well as impressively plush quick-change dresses and banditwear
Ti Green’s set is a treehouse den that most little boys could only dream of, and Fi Russell’s costumes mix frilled 17th-century shirts with jeans and Converse. It’s all dress-up and make believe.
The Stage, Ben Kluvichit
On-stage costume changes and scene shifting are done with military precision. You’re not just watching a play, you’re being shown what it takes to hold a production together.
The Reviews Hub, Helen Tope
The concept of childhood friends playing out the role of the Musketeers, supported by great costume ideas from Fi Russell involving capes that looked like they were swiped from mum’s curtains
Grow, Joff Alexander-Frye
'Aladdin', The Plymouth Atheneum
December 2018 - January 2019
Pastiche panto it may be but the Fi Russell’s set is slick, shifting the action from palace to laundry, dungeon to street and testament to the carpentry skills of Spencer Rouse and Dante Villa and painter Jamie Andrews.
The staging, a clever multi-tasking design, makes good use of the Plymouth Athaneum space, taking us from launderette to palace in the blink of an eye. With well-judged use of props and lighting, you could be forgiven for thinking you are watching a regular panto, but Le Navet Bete’s Aladdin is far from ordinary.
The Reviews Hub, Helen Tope
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