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DS_CD_vi17.mov |
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Seventeenth video interview clip with Theatre Designer Chris Dyer |
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Question: Do you think that Shakespeare is actually a positive aspect of the theatre in Britain or is it something that is actually a legacy that you have to get over? Answer: I think it's both. I think there are better productions that you see now, I think. I saw a school production of Romeo and Juliet recently and the teacher, who had rehearsed it and put it on in the school, who didn't have anything to prove, had been to a workshop at the National Theatre on cutting Shakespeare, presenting Shakespeare in schools, and she'd applied this to this school production and it was fantastic. The kids loved it, and the parents loved it and the whole thing was a painless kind of exercise in good theatre, good practice, and very enjoyable and I think that there's a generation certainly in that school that think, 'hey theatre's good and who's this guy Shakespeare?' Whereas I think my generation it was, kind of, horror time, you know, what is this stuffy thing, how can we keep off Shakespeare, kind of, Shakespeare and Latin maybe went hand in hand at one point in schools. So, no, I do think it changes but maybe, you know, that the pendulum will go the other way and it will become stuffy again. I think there's a lot of effort in trying to break it down and make it more approachable, I think it's been suffocated for a long time but I think that that is disappearing. |
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DS_05_06_01 INT-01 (mini DV tape) |
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Quicktime Progressive (video) |
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Resource Movie |
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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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1 minute 42.01 seconds |
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