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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Audio Interview Clip

- Modern Dress

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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Modern Dress
Filename	:	DS_NO_au15.mov
Date of Interview	:	16 December 2002
Date digital resource created	:	06 June 2003
Creator1	:	Nick Ormerod
Creator2	:	Christie Carson
Creator role1	:	Theatre Designer - Interviewee
Creator role2	:	Principle Investigator - Interviewer
Description	:	Question: And you do tend to, I mean, the majority of your productions have been in modern dress. What would be a reason to do it in another way? Answer: Well, for example, Much Ado About Nothing, played in, kind of, 1900. And the reason for that was that, the reason for that was that period seemed to release the language. We were working with Joan Washington, on dialect, and we had one session when the sense of the military in that play was totally realised by giving it a military, as it were, pre First World War, voice if you like. It just completely made the language comprehensible and then it seemed to me we had no choice, it wasn't any way of making the language work within a completely modern context. So we put it, as it were, in the most recent context that we could find that was before 1914.
Source	:	DS_16_12_02 (2xmini DV tape)
Format	:	Quicktime Progressive (audio)
Type	:	Resource Audio
Rights	:	This clip may be used for educational purposes only, any commercial use of this material requires permission from the copyright holders. Misuse or misrepresentation may result in legal action. Copyright holder: Christie Carson, COMPH, Royal Holloway University of London.
Length	:	50.21 seconds