THE CARETAKER / BY HAROLD PINTER

SHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY, 2022

DIRECTOR / BONNIE J. MONTE
SCENIC DESIGNER / SARAH BETH HALL
LIGHTING DESIGNER / MATTHEW ADELSON
COSTUME DESIGNER / BONNIE J. MONTE
SOUND DESIGNER / KARIN GRAYBASH

PHOTOGRAPHY BY SARAH HALEY

The attic set is a masterpiece of cluttered, run-down gloom created by designer Sarah Beth Hall and brought to life through the lighting of Matthew Adelson and the sound design of Karin Graybash. 

ALLEN NEUNER / OUT IN JERSEY

Directed by Shakespeare Theatre artistic director Bonnie J. Monte and benefiting from a spectacularly unkempt set design by Sarah Beth Hall, actors Isaac Hickox-Young, Jon Barker and Paul Mullins — as Aston, Mick and Davies, respectively — brings these rather pathetic characters to vivid life in this production.

JAY LUSTIG / NEW JERSEY STAGE

The rundown house is a magnificent creation with old furniture and majestic ceiling high windows (and a leaky roof) by scenic designer Sarah Beth Hall and lighting designer Matthew Adelson. 

BRUCE CHADWICK / NEW JERSEY STAGE

A psychological study of power, allegiance, innocence and corruption, it draws the audience into a compelling and mysterious world, where an unsettling and ever-shifting struggle plays out amidst a strange domestic scenario within the walls of a “home” that is as threatening as it is fragile….Sarah Beth Hall’s dreary set is the perfect canvas on which the plot unfolds: as decrepit as Davies, as confused as Aston, it’s a mish-mosh of cast-off stuff—appliances, luggage and lumber—mirroring the cast-off souls who live there.

RUTH ROSS / NJ ARTS MAVEN