Hessian hyena and a pack of playful concepts reveal bright future for stage design
The Linbury prize exhibition at the National Theatre is full of smart ideas including a truckers' royal court and a jester-like Dr Faustus Alice in Wonderland reimagined in Partition-era India, a lifesize puppet of a hyena daemon from Philip Pullman's Magisterium and the cast of John Webster's 17th-century play The Duchess of Malfi dressed as 1970s truckers. These are some of the creations that feature in a National …