Peter also suggest that scenery painter Rod Taylor deserves a place in the spotlight for his work painting the backcloths, crucial scene setters for the show. |
Back stage then everything was manual, working up in the flies dropping in scenery and backcloths, dropping and re-winding back the massive safety curtain. |
He has painted backcloths up to 400sqm in size and has also painted trompe l'oeil images for private houses and public buildings. |
The use of old cut-out photographs of the main protagonists, against backcloths, is a neat stylistic device and Evans' narration is droll and knowing. |