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Set Design

Inside the West Gate model box

with Christina Smith

Hear from Set & Costume Designer Christina Smith about evoking the scale of the West Gate Bridge onstage.

By Emily Doyle

Set & Costume Designer Christina Smith's concept for West Gate ignites the audience's imagination about what's beyond the proscenium, and juxtaposes the scale of this engineering endeavour with the humans who built it.