The set's the thing: how the stage helped The Secret River come alive
Set designer Stephen Curtis says the best of his work supports the actors and solves problems, but warns in a new essay on his work that it's also easy to be glib and rely on old tricks rather than create an original 'visual signature' The stage is cavernous, shadowy, a proscenium arch suggested by eucalyptus branches. Folds of cloth, falling 13.5 metres, conjure the bark of an emblematically oversized gum tree, or c…