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Then after that I had numerous bouts with Shakespeare, which included the Marowitz versions of Hamlet and Macbeth, which I took on tour around Europe. I did a production of The Scottish Play in Birmingham with Keith Baxter, who I saw the other night actually who was waxing lyrical about it, it was completely bonkers, and then there was a great kind of spell of not really doing very much Shakespeare until I went to the RSC. And you know it's pretty strange to not be a kind of theatre-phile, I mean I'm not, I admit it, I mean I was brought up in North London in a secondary modern school, went to art school, what do I know about Shakespeare? So actually, the reality is, that while I was at the RSC that was my education, as well as, working with some of the great minds of contemporary Shakespeare productions. So it had it's dividends in a way because I was sort of rather na¦°ve, and therefore very excited about it, and very kind of involved, and discovering lots of things, and that was for me a huge, I mean it was just the best time, the best.'Answer: In the second year it was some kind of centenary year for the Central School and so instead of just having the degree students put on an exhibition they had every level of students put on an exhibition, and theatre design was quite a large course there then and they put an exhibition on in the main halls of all three years work. I had amongst that a Tamburlaine, an Oedipus Rex, I can't remember if there was a Shakespeare, there may have been a Lear, and a director, just you know, just poodling around to take a look at the exhibition, saw my work, flipped, thought it was fantastic, offered me a job there on the spot to become head of design of a provincial theatre, in my second year. And I had, you know, I obviously had to talk to Ralph and he said, ''Well no come on you've got to take the job but we'll keep you on at the college and we will work your degree based on your practical work in that theatre.Õ? That's what I did, I think it's fairly unprecedented and hasn't happened since, unfortunately, and those were sort of halcyon days for theatre, I mean there was lots and lots of rep theatre going on. So I went up to Leicester Phoenix theatre and I did only one Shakespeare up there, that was The Merchant of Venice, dreadful, I did it so badly, [laughs] I had no idea what I was doing, enjoyed the play but felt completely lost in it, although I'd done Brecht's Galileo, was the first production, and Danton's Death, I'm pretty sure that The Merchant of Venice was the only Shakespeare. |
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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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