A scenographic proposal for Maurice Maeterlinck’s The Death of Tintagiles, developed for the Abbey stage.

The design treats the play as a world of descent, enclosure and gradual disappearance. Architecture is used less as setting than as pressure: a sequence of monuments, thresholds, screens and chambers through which the child’s fate becomes spatially inevitable.

The work developed through scenic diagrams, model-making and stage composition. A real boy descends through mist before life is transferred into a puppet; translucent panels frame and conceal the space; architectural fragments move towards compression as the Queen’s unseen power closes around the stage.

The proposal explores the relationship between body and object, actor and puppet, visibility and disappearance. Space is not a background to the action, but the mechanism through which the world of the play tightens.