PRESS


...high octane lighting from Charlie Morgan Jones...
— Theo Bosanquet, WhatsOnStage

THE LIGHTNING THIEF - THE OTHER PALACE

Charlie Morgan Jones’s vibrant lighting design...
— Olivia Mitchell, Rewrite This Story
...exquisite lighting design from Charlie Morgan Jones...
— Daz Gale, All That Dazzles
...enhanced by Charlie Morgan Jones’ dramatic lighting.
— Theatre and Tonic

FAUST - CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY

Add to that Charlie Morgan Jones’ spectacular lighting plot which emphasises both shifts in emotion and transitions from the realistic to the imaginary and the overall result is a rich visual language that integrates the deadly serious and the humorous, the worldly and the unworldly.
— Opera Ramblings
Throughout, Charlie Morgan Jones’ lighting - so key in a work about light and dark - helps focus our attention.
— Glenn Sumi , Toronto Star
…the clever use of lighting…add striking visual effects to emphasize shifts in emotions.
— My Scena

THE RING CYCLE - LONGBOROUGH FESTIVAL OPERA

Lighting Designer Charlie Morgan Jones focusses attention with powerful spotlights directly from above, bringing a sense of transcendence to the key moments...
— GAVIN DIXON , OPERA NOW
Lighting by Charlie Morgan Jones brings searing spotlights suddenly bearing down at key moments...
— NICHOLAS KENON , THE TELEGRAPH
Yet with Charlie Morgan Jones’s lighting...the whole is effective enough to conjure shadowy woods, swirling mists, a brutalist Valhalla and a blaze of red-gold fire.
— Rebecca Franks , THE Times
...Charlie Morgan Jones’s inspired lighting. It serves not simply to create illusion...but to add meaning.

The superb lighting design by Charlie Morgan Jones, which illuminates the action in every sense....
— Colin Davison , British Theatre Guide
...with imaginative but simple stage designs by Rhiannon Newman Brown and lighting by Charlie Morgan Jones...
— Fiona Maddocks , THE Observer

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.
— OPERA MAGAZINE
Moving clouds of mist, lit with striking imagination, suggest the wallpaper...
— GEORGE HALL, THE STAGE

CINDERELLA - ENGLISH TOURING OPERA

...lit with sophistication by Charlie Morgan Jones...
— GEORGE HALL, THE STAGE

POPPEA - ENGLISH TOURING OPERA

...atmospherically and inventively lit by Charlie Morgan Jones.
— Robert Thicknesse, Opera Now

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...
— Sceneblog.dk

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.
— Riitta-Leena Lempinen- Vesa, Itä-Savo
...Charlie Morgan Jones’ stylish lighting design...visually delicious setting...
— Samuli Tiikkaja, Helsingin Sanomat

MIXTAPE - SADLER’S WELLS

...retina teasing...
— Mark Monahan, The Telegraph
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…
— Mark Velencia, Opera Magazine

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.
— Clive Davis, The Times
The desire is aflame from every corner of the stage, illuminated in a rich, intelligent design by Charlie Morgan Jones…
— Francesca Peschier, The Stage

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
— Aftenposten

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
— Dave Fargnoli, The Stage

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...
— Sarah Crompton, The Observer
The show’s other key elements are equally admirable: Charlie Morgan Jones’s moody, sometimes radiant lighting...
— Donald Hutera, The Times

THE LADY VANISHES - UK TOUR

A sense of hidden dangers is enhanced by the shadows cast by Charlie Morgan Jones’ lighting design.
— Natalie Douglas, The Stage
Lighting by Charlie Morgan Jones is used to great effect.
— Sheila Connor, British Theatre Guide
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.
— Andrew Clark, Opera Magazine

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.
— Colin Douglas, Chicago Theatre Review
...Lighting Designer Charlie Morgan-Jones...creates a basic yet mesmerizingly effective series of eye-popping stimuli...
— Amanda N Gunther, Theatre Bloom

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.
— Neil Bonner, The Stage

THE BURNT PART BOYS - PARK THEATRE

...and the trademark genius of Charlie Morgan-Jones’ evocative lighting design.
— Julian Eaves, BritishTheatre.com

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...
— Alex Ramon, The Reviews Hub