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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Audio Interview Clip

- Audience Reactions

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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Audience Reactions
Filename	:	DS_FT_au13.mov
Description	:	Question: How do you find audiences respond to modern dress productions?. I mean you have said how critics respond to it, but how to audiences feel about it? Answer: Well, I hope they find it quite stimulating. I think that, I noticed with Julius Caesar because you got feed back during the interval. People found it very exciting. They found, I think Shakespeare's verse can be very alienating until you, I mean those first scenes are very critical for you to get into the way of the language and the rhythm of the language. Once you get into that, then I think it's very important that whatever theatrical context period that you set it in as a designer, that in fact people are drawn in by it and interested and engaged by it rather than alienated by it. I mean it depends because I do like the Brechtian idea of pushing people away at time so that they analyse, but I think most of the time with Shakespeare it's important to draw people in and to pull them closer to the play and to the characters, and I think that often works in modern dress particularly.
Source	:	DS_18_06_02 INT-07 (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	:	55.22 seconds