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DS_JT_vi24.mov |
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Twenty-Fourth video interview clip with Theatre Designer Jenny Tiramani |
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Question: Do you think, where do you think theatre design is going and how should we be training young designers? Do you have any thoughts about that? Answer: Well, I don't do much teaching these days, and I don't know a lot about what's going on in the schools. I'm a bit out of touch. Motley's is the only course that I've taught on or had anything to do with in the last couple of years. But, I think, I think it would be more helpful if design was taught as, not being these odd things called site-specific projects, or, you know, this is your experimental project, and this is your normal project. If those things were brought together more. 'Cos I think that's what stops design going forward is that there's still this very traditional idea about, you know, scenery for a start. I think the idea that we still have scenery is faintly ridiculous. You know, a lot of our traditions, the worst traditions of theatre design for me, they're Victorian. It's like half of us are still living in the Victorian age. It has nothing to do with the twenty first century. And I think unless that is honestly shed, that, you know, that there's a actual, kind of honestly saying, 'oh, look at, you know this is, what, what are you doing building a house on stage?', you know, that's kind of ridiculous, that's, that's very old fashioned. It's just not connecting it with the rest of our lives, it's not, you know, it's not making connections and I think, well, I don't know. I mean most theatre design I think is just dreadful. Absolutely dreadful. Including some of mine [laughs]. Question: In what sense? Answer: Just dreary. Just like arrogant or, you know. It's easy to be arrogant with theatre design and it's something that, and it always looks embarrassing when it's not absolutely, you know, spot on the text. And it doesn't age well. |
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DS_06_06_02 (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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2 minutes 10.24 seconds |
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