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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Audio Interview Clip

- Theatre as Laboratory

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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Theatre as Laboratory
Filename	:	DS_SJ_au18.mov
Description	:	Question: Do you think that that it does link in with people's contemporary experience of whatever happens to be political events? Are there, are there larger issues that get caught up in where people feel comfortable in experiencing? Answer: Yes, absolutely, absolutely. I mean there was a period where we put a whole audience through absolute torture to try and get them in the right mood for the play. You know, put paper bags all over their heads or lead them around blind through the corridors until they get into the acting space. I mean that all happened in the experimental, it was a marvellous time, in the sixties and into the seventies when we were questioning the nature of theatre and everything was a laboratory. I mean you thought what happens if they can't see a thing until suddenly they're all exposed to to, and then they all realised they're being crowded into a room together and there's nothing going to happen at all. You know, all this stuff was going on to open up the question of of what is theatre. And, you know, there were great pioneers of theatre experimentation that, that lead us through all of this. And the great group work that was happening in America particularly with the spaces.
Source	:	DS_10_05_02 (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.