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| Filename |
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DS_NO_au23.mov |
| Date of Interview |
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16 December 2002 |
| Date digital resource created |
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06 June 2003 |
| Creator1 |
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Nick Ormerod |
| Creator2 |
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Christie Carson |
| Creator role1 |
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Theatre Designer - Interviewee |
| Creator role2 |
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Principle Investigator - Interviewer |
| Description |
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Question: In terms of Cheek by Jowl as a company, what were it's original intentions when you started it and are they the same now? Has it evolved? Answer: I don't think it has evolved in a way, it's intentions really were to work in the way we wanted to work. Or it's first intention was to create work for ourselves which it succeeded in doing. But then I think accidentally it happened to be the sort of work that we wanted to do in a way, if you follow. It was a way of making a job for ourselves. But then we discovered that actually the job we had accidentally created was one we wanted to do. Which was to take theatre around to different spaces and it enabled us to work on these texts, which you can do with the minimum of scenery and just a few props and costumes. So the two, it was an accidental collision. But I think it still does that, it provides us with a job and also working on texts that we want to do. And now it's developed in such a way that we can take it abroad a lot, which gives it another exciting dimension. Question: Are you in danger at all of suffering from your own success? Suddenly having to work in bigger spaces with more money or do you think it still works if you expand your vision to a larger you know, production endeavour, as it were? Answer: Well recent experiments make us a bit wary of moving into a bigger scale because I think theatre, and I think people are beginning to realise that the key to a successful theatre is the space. And to impose these huge auditoria on an actor is actually a disaster. And actors were never meant to be able to do that. To say, to talk back to some golden age, when there were big actors who could fill these spaces, I simply don't believe it. And if they did, they weren't acting very well, they were just standing and talking loudly to the back row. The great theatres have always been actor sized, if you like, the Globe was actor sized. It may have seated, may have crammed in three thousand, but that's the size it was, which was great for an actor. So and no, actually experiments with bigger theatres have not really proved very rewarding. So that actually we are coming back now to our roots and we're reviving Cheek by Jowl with a production of Othello, which will go into rehearsal at Christmas, next year, Christmas 2003. |
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DS_16_12_02 (2xmini DV tape) |
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Quicktime Progressive (audio) |
| Type |
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Resource Audio |
| Rights |
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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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2 minutes 17.10 seconds |
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