Bild-Lilli

scenography

Lull Studios' elektrocabaret Bild-Lilli tells the story of a doll the size of a Barbie doll. Designed and built by Lindsay Webb the scenography for the show is a foil for, and interlocutor with, the solo performer.

A lifesize polycarbonate doll packaging tube based on a precise historical model, it contains all the bells and whistles you could wish for and then some: a revolving floor, integrated smoke machine, coloured chasing lights, bubbles, and hidey holes for props and puppets.

Lighting effects are particularly spectacular onto and inside the 'tube'. Some functions and effects can be triggered and operated by the performer herself during the show.

Public performances: Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, 3 week season, 2012
Award nominations: Green Room Award, Innovation in Cabaret, 2012

Lindsay also created the graphic design and marketing images for the project. A range of seductive imagery captivated the media in the lead-up to the premiere. Taking cues from historic imagery associated with the Lilli-doll from the 1950s, a range of composites were created where performer Elena Knox appears plasticised and vacantly executing duties in tiny worlds.

Visually inventive cabaret… Elena Knox looks the part in alarming heels, moulded blonde wig and a range of clever costumes, and her dolllike physical theatre is excellent.
The Age   For me, this is a Frankensteinian recipe of old-school indie-theatre techniques, performance art and cerebral music combined to create a life-sized, freakishly attractive plastic-doll-of-a-show.
Theatre Press

IMAGES: MEDIA COVERAGE

Time Out
Australian Stage
College of Fine Art
Theatre Press
Herald Sun
The Music

Bild-Lilli video showreel