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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Audience Expectations
Filename DS_JT_vi19.mov
Short Desc Nineteenth video interview clip with Theatre Designer Jenny Tiramani
Description Question: Do you think that there's a relationship between the theatre design fashion and audience expectations. You were saying about part of the reason for the 1980's splashiness was Thatcherism and conspicuous consumption. Answer: Yes, yes, I guess there is. Although, you know, I'm still nervous about audience expectation 'cos all I can do is make work and then put it out there and see what happens and then I can study it afterwards and look back and say 'oh, I'm so embarrassed by certain stages of my work at certain periods', but when, I don't know, I don't know about the audience expectations of theatre. I do, I mean we know that they go to see big musicals, you know, that there's a, you know you have to do a big musical, you know, you have to do it in a certain way and put a certain amount into it to make it work, otherwise it won't fulfil people's expectations, but I don't know if you can generalise about that to other forms of theatre and to Shakespeare. I'm not sure what the expectation of Shakespeare is really. All I know is that, you know, we are selling 3,400 seats or places a day all summer. Selling out, returns queues of eighty or ninety people who will wait all day to see if there is one standing seat left or a standing place, so you know, that must be, that's feeding people.
Source DS_06_06_02 (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 25.00 seconds

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