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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Audio Interview Clip

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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Other Productions
Filename	:	DS_CD_au18.mov
Description	:	Question: Have you in the past done research on other productions before you start to design or is that something you try to avoid as much as possible? Answer: ? I don't mind seeing a show that I'm about to design, I tend to think I'll learn more from what I don't like about it then I will in terms of what I want to copy from it. You have to be quite careful I think, I saw Terry Hands' Henry the Fifth and Henry Fourth and Sixth and that had quite a strong influence on me and it was quite difficult to get away from that when I did it a bit later with the ESC. Question: Was it a positive or negative influence having seen them? Answer: Creatively negative in the end that it, kind of, got in the way a bit, that I couldn't get away from that presentation. Question: That's certainly the case with actors having to do 'to be or not to be' is there a similar sort of thing that happens with design? That there becomes a sort of seminal production that you have to battle against or deal with. Answer: I think probably you are corrupted as soon as you see anyone else's show, probably for the rest of your creative life. You know, I think, as soon as you've seen how someone else does it then your response to it must narrow and that you can't achieve a really raw response. I mean I think when I worked with Buzz and we did Hamlet that my response then was completely raw because I was totally untutored at that time, in fact, I mean, at that time, I don't think I'd designed a period show at that time. And, I think, when I went into the main theatre and started designing, kind of, main house shows that my work became a parody in some ways.
Source	:	DS_05_06_01 INT-01 (mini 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	:	2 minutes 3.06 seconds