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DS_FT_au12.mov |
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Question: You said right at the beginning that you think it's very important to make Shakespeare in particular, approachable to an audience, do you do that through metaphor? How do you think is the best way to approach the audience and make it relevant to them? Answer: It's different for different plays. That's what, why I think that is the major, for me, one of the major questions at the beginning, because I do believe, I know this is one of your other questions about the relevance of Shakespeare, that when you are working on classic text, to make it relevant to a modern audience, sometimes you need to be quite brave about editing it. Sometimes you need to be quite brave about setting it in another period. And I use the word brave quite advisedly because the amount of stick I've had about that as a designer over the years, with the director as well, has been, you know, it's been considerable, I mean I've been looking at some of the old reviews. Some of them are really horrible and people really don't like the idea of setting a classic text in a different, putting it in a different period, but I think that's very very important. And in Julius Caesar we did it twice, and the first time we set it in the Commonwealth which is very close to the Elizabethan time really, we're sort of forty years down the way a bit. But when we set it in Eastern Europe, that really pushed it a long way into, well, very much up to the present time, when we did it. |
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DS_18_06_02 INT-07 (mini DV tape) |
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Quicktime Progressive (audio) |
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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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1 minute 14.10 seconds |
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