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DS_SK_vi01.mov |
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First video interview clip with Theatre Designer Shelagh Keegan |
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Question: What would you say were the key stages of development for your career? Where did you start, where did you end up? Answer: I started making props at Coventry and I think that gave me the first taste of the kind of team values in theatre and how you all work to this common goal which is to get the play on no matter what. It's quite shocking at first, you know, that you are this tiny little spoke in this huge wheel, but it's all for this one very important thing which is to get the play on. Then I went on to being an assistant designer at Coventry, same place, and then assistant designer in Wales and then I worked as, I travelled in Canada and lived in Canada for two years assisting where I could in various theatres. I can't remember his name, Art Penson, who is head of design at Coventry was over there and I went over to see him and he gave me some names of people and worked from one theatre to another doing props making really because it was in the days when you could get paid under the table a bit. I don't think you can now. So that was, and then I went on to being a head of design which was huge for me because it was throwing myself in at the deep end and I was head of design, costume maker, props maker. I did everything. It was at Milford Haven in Wales when I came back to this country and stayed there for three years with a director called Graham Watkins, who was a bit of an old so-and-so really, but well, a young so-and-so, but what I didn't learn there was, you know, it was incredible really in terms of, you know, a really good grounding. And I think that's what's sad today, that designers don't get that chance to work in Reps and learn their craft from the bottom up really. I think you've got to go in as a assistant I think, it seems to me these days, as assistant to another designer and that's not the same I don't think. And then I went on to doing Head of Design at The Duke's Playhouse and met David and the rest is history, you know, kind of The Young Vic, head of design and then freelance when I'd had children and then when I'd had enough I gave up. |
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DS_18_06_02 INT-06 (mini DV tape) |
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Quicktime Progressive (video) |
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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 09.07 seconds |
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