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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Video Interview Clip

- Reading Shakespeare

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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Reading Shakespeare
Filename	:	DS_SK_vi02.mov
Short Desc	:	Second video interview clip with Theatre Designer Shelagh Keegan
Description	:	Question: When you start on a design project, what is your first starting point, do you work on the text? Answer: Reading the text, making copious notes, reading the text and I think that came more from David than from anybody else I'd worked previously with and I ought to say I had done no Shakespeare until I met David at all, I had never even read a Shakespeare play. I think I'd seen one dreadful play with, film at school with Lawrence Olivier. I went to a dreadful secondary modern school, same one Tracy Emin went to, that's my claim to fame. I had no idea what Shakespeare was and to my dying day I will always be grateful to David because he sat down I can remember, I think we were doing a production of Hamlet and he sat down and he went through it page by page with me and told me to get the Arden Shakespeare copies and read the notes at the end and he taught me how to read Shakespeare. And what was wonderful about him was because I had never read Shakespeare before and he was very much into the whole intellectual side of Shakespeare as well, because he had done it at University and everything, he really valued my opinion about coming at it from a completely kind of non-intellectual way and in a way that I might make an assumption about a play which perhaps somebody who had read the play before might not. And he really valued that and it gave me immense confidence which I don't think I would have had with other directors perhaps. And he was incredibly patient with me and I learnt enormously from him as much as from Shakespeare.
Source	:	DS_18_06_02 INT-06 (mini DV tape)
Format	:	Quicktime Progressive (video)
Type	:	Resource Movie
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 27.00 seconds