Stockholm Resource Pack - Frantic Assembly

Georgina Lamb
Photo Manuel Harlan
The attic
We needed a place for Kali to escape to. It would be a
place that would suggest a great view out onto the world,
presenting the possibility for knowledge and objectivity but
would ultimately turn to taunt Kali for her inability to see.
It needed to be a place separate from Todd where Kali
could fall victim to her brutal insecurities.
Just like the kitchen and the bed would turn on the couple
we wanted the attic to do the same. Laura Hopkins
ingeniously designed a 'dangerous' desk that would pull Kali
in and terrify her. This involved creating the illusion of a
solid desk that was actually filled with water. It has a
working laptop apparently resting on it along with a mug
and angle poise lamp. Then, inexplicably, it pulls Kali
into itself.
It is a very exciting effect. It adds to the notion that 'Us' are
desperately trying to tell them something. Does it also
suggest that 'Us' is the house Is 'Us' not just the
suppressed personal knowledge of the protagonists but also
the knowledge of the only continual observer, ie the house
It is an interesting thought. (see 'Us')
If this is so then this house that they built,
Todd
The house that love built (p.30)
is not buying into this notion of the perfect relationship.
It knows too much. It has seen too much. Like 'Us' it also
knows where it will end.
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Georgina Lamb and Samuel James
Photo Sandro Martini