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Question: Do you think that Shakespeare should be made to speak to a modern audience through metaphor or analogy or how do you work with, you know, a text that a lot of people feel removed from? Answer: My approach to Shakespeare has always been to try to make it work for a modern young audience, an audience that isn't particularly educated in the poetry of Shakespeare and that's been my interest in Shakespeare and really reflects my kind of relationship to Shakespeare because that's in a way where I come from. Trying to work as a costume designer, I like to try to identify character and if I'm working in period, then I'll try to find a modern equivalent and either I can update the character to today to that modern equivalent or try to transpose that modern equivalent back into a period costume and that's, to some extent, is how I work. One analogy that I used, because I'm not a natural costume designer, I had to find a way of designing men in tights and the way I found was through cowboy films, in that I thought here is a kind of Genre, that was a very acceptable kind of Genre, but men in period costumes that people didn't laugh at or whatever, so I kind of looked at cowboy films and the way they were costumed. In particular, when Fist Full of Dollars and those films came out, I found a way of actually transposing that into an Elizabethan kind of way of costuming. When I first starting working with costume, costume makers had all different ways of making the shirts stay nice and tights and trousers stay up with braces that went in through holes in the shirts and they were very inflexible costumes. I wanted, I wanted the performers to be sexy, I felt that was the most important thing and I couldn't think how tights could make anyone sexy. But the other thing was that I wanted them to be able to wear the clothes like they wore modern clothes, so they could pull the shirt out, they could undo the trousers, to try to make that parallel. And, in fact, there was a little bit of opposition to begin with. Question: From the costume makers or from the actors themselves? Answer: Yes, they didn't want to change the way that they did things. Actors loved it, it was quite popular. |
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DS_05_06_01 INT-01 (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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3 minutes 2.16 seconds |
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