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Question: Were you surprised by the impact that it had? Answer: Yes, because I didn't know any different. I'd come from Los Angeles where everything was like that and I'd been looking, there was some marvellous Sam Francis paintings on show in Los Angeles at that time. Just big empty white canvases with beautiful, multicoloured, primary strips down the sides or one along the bottom. And he said, I remember reading in the programme or hearing it from somewhere, I don't know where. He said 'the white space is for you to enter'. And so I had this in my head and I went home and I did a whole lot of sort of mandalas of just black lines on a white background, with florescent dots here and there which I moved around in different positions. Again it was hippie time you know with the mandalas you remember all that stuff. And I brought some of those to show Peter as well and I said maybe that's the fairies, maybe there florescent, that's why they're different to everybody else. So, you know, the things I brought with me, but his briefing was to absolutely, we've got to make a place where the audience has no idea what's going to happen next. And we can absolutely, and we can make the magic by the surprise of the moment to moment happenings in this space. It was a marvellous sort of you know coming together of an idea and a result. It happened really quickly in an hotel room. As most good ideas do. Yes. Do you this that there's, has been a legacy caused by that production in a strange sort of a way? I don't know, I mean it caused it caused a lot, it got a lot of attention because it was so fresh. Bust a lot of other designers were working towards just having a box and you make everything out of that box. I mean, it wasn't the only box around. On the Stratford stage it was a sensational box because, you know, you're in the red, plush theatre and there was this white box... which just sat there and dominated the whole atmosphere and also gave the audience immediately an instruction that you're not where you think you're normally going to be and it helped them get into the piece. |
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DS_10_05_02 (mini DV tape) |
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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. |
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2 minutes 13.01 seconds |
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