PRESS
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER - COPENHAGEN OPERA FESTIVAL
“She is locked on stage by lighting designer Charlie Morgan Jones’ fascinating walls of light that slowly creep closer to the woman...”
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER - SADLER’S WELLS
“...while Charlie Morgan Jones’s lighting summoned all the necessary atmosphere, especially in its use of mist to suggest the sinister, all-pervading wallpaper.”
“Moving clouds of mist, lit with striking imagination, suggest the wallpaper...”
ROMEO ET JULIETTE - SAVONLINNA OPERA FESTIVAL
“An important part are the lights designed by Charlie Morgan Jones. The castle’s high walls have space for wonderful light shows, and that’s what he can do.”
“...Charlie Morgan Jones’ stylish lighting design...visually delicious setting...”
MIXTAPE - SADLER’S WELLS
“...retina teasing...”
“Longborough can be something of a handicap chase for even the finest thoroughbreds…It takes a theatrical wizard to break free of its incarceration. For Amy Lane’s Ring cycle they’ve found one…
Charlie Morgan Jones is a lighting designer with 22 previous opera credits but he is not yet a well-known name. That will change. Like Alberich he is cunning and resourceful, deft at blurring the scale of the stage with fuzzy boundaries and illusions of depth, adept at plying his craft to conceal or reveal characters…”
SIEGFRIED - LONGBOROUGH FESTIVAL OPERA
PASSION - HOPE MILL THEATRE
“...ingeniously shrouded in lighting designer Charlie Morgan Jones’s contrasting washes of colour, reflecting the abrupt changes in emotional temperature.”
“The desire is aflame from every corner of the stage, illuminated in a rich, intelligent design by Charlie Morgan Jones…”
LA BOHEME - DEN NORSKE OPERA
“Charlie Morgan Jones’ lighting also played a part in the unfolding narrative...
Small colour changes and a lighting rig that moved up and down served to define the settings and heighten the intimacy”
THE SNOW QUEEN - ROSE, KINGSTON
“Charlie Morgan Jones’ impressive lighting design helps to firmly locate each scene, filling the magical land of elves with a warm fireside glow, while the world of humans begins in a bleached-out grey that’s suddenly illuminated by the rippling spectrum of some gorgeously realised northern lights”
REDD - BARBICAN
“Squares and shafts of light (fabulously designed by Charlie Morgan Jones) pinion him in place as waves of dancers throw themselves around him...”
“The show’s other key elements are equally admirable: Charlie Morgan Jones’s moody, sometimes radiant lighting...”
THE LADY VANISHES - UK TOUR
“A sense of hidden dangers is enhanced by the shadows cast by Charlie Morgan Jones’ lighting design.”
“Lighting by Charlie Morgan Jones is used to great effect.”
“The staging was blessed with a perfect foundation in the shape of Adrian Linford’s realistic tenement set…and the whole was topped off by Charlie Morgan Jones’s atmospheric lighting.”
STREET SCENE - ROYAL CONSERVATOIRE OF SCOTLAND
GOBSMACKED! - NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
“...brilliantly lit by Charlie Morgan-Jones, this two-act confection will amaze and delight audiences of all ages.”
“...Lighting Designer Charlie Morgan-Jones...creates a basic yet mesmerizingly effective series of eye-popping stimuli...”
MACBETH - THEATRE SEVERN
“Charlie Morgan Jones’ lighting allows the body to be seen by Macbeth (and the audience) only to disappear again. It’s quite breathtaking.”
THE BURNT PART BOYS - PARK THEATRE
“...and the trademark genius of Charlie Morgan-Jones’ evocative lighting design.”
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - UK TOUR
“...Charlie Morgan Jones’s lighting, which bathes the stage in shadows or washes of red or green, has just the right Pop expressiveness...”