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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Audio Interview Clip

- Changes in Design

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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Changes in Design
Filename	:	DS_FT_au19.mov
Description	:	Question: I'm going to move on to the last set of questions which are about looking at this whole period that we're assessing, sort of the forty year period from 1960 onward and do you think that theatre design as changed radically over that period? Answer: Yeah, I think it has. It wouldn't say that I knew a tremendous amount about it. I picked it up more through osmosis than anything else and I know that there are designers through the years like Jocelyn Herbert, for example, who was doing remarkable work back in the sixties at The Royal Court, and people like Ralph Koltai, who I've cited as being people who have had an impact on my own work, so I think there are remarkable designers in all periods. I would say, making a generalisation, that it was probably mostly more conservative and has become less so and designer become more metaphorical, the imagery has become more important I would say towards the eighties and nineties and very very, I don't go to the theatre very much any more so I couldn't tell you what it was like now. But I get a sense that there might, from the few things I have seen I feel like there is a conservative kind of movement back and away from theatre and design as metaphor.
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	:	1 minute 03.16 seconds