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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Audio Interview Clip

- Theatre Architecture

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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Theatre Architecture
Filename	:	DS_FT_au06.mov
Description	:	Question: One of the things I was interested in is the relationship between the designer and the space that you're creating for. You've worked in a variety of different spaces, do you think that has an enormous impact on what you are creating? Answer: It does. I think that the relationship between the performers and the audience is the very essence of theatre performance and theatre production and that should be, as a designer I feel I have to enable that dynamic to happen. I call it dialectic actually. I think at its healthiest it is that and I probably, people have said to me "What do you mean, is this a hegalian word you are using" no it's my own word. It's the changing response between the two, it's a changing relationship, that's what makes live theatre so precious I think as an event. And that, I think the relationship between the design and the building is the same kind of relationship and that the set has to have a relationship with the building. If it's not going to have a relationship with the building, it's got to be for very, very definite reasons, why are you cutting that off? To say the building, you know, say I go into a space and I think, oh no, I don't like this space very much, I don't have a very positive response to a space, I think it's a challenge for me to find how to make it work and to find how to make the performance work in that space. It's hard work sometimes. There's some really bad theatre architecture, really bad, and so it is quite a challenge at times.
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 22.13 seconds