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Ninth video interview clip with Theatre Designer Jenny Tiramani |
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Question: You were talking about speaking to a modern audience and I was wondering whether you, when you're looking for a particular period or world, are you searching for a metaphor, and what sort of metaphor do you think is appropriate to speak to a contemporary audience? Answer: I mean it does partly depend on which sort of a play it is, you know, and I guess the, it's the histories and the tragedies, some of the tragedies that lend themselves more to metaphor. And I haven't done a lot of that. But as I say, that's because I'm in this phase of, if you like, feeling that, you know, certainly at The Globe what really hooks an audience is doing them in their own period. I just find, that's really dead interesting, you know, rather than, you know, saying 'oh, this story of Richard III is really like what happened with the rise of the Third Reich', you know those type, that's the sort of metaphor you mean, isn't it. I did do, the Hamlet that I did with Kenneth Branagh. His idea was that it should be that life was all about theatre, so we did it with these huge red curtains, this is way before he did the movie or the RSC production, but everything in the play was sort of something you'd find in a theatre. It's not a new metaphor, I mean it's been done a lot by a lot of different companies, and it was ok, you know [laughs] it was fine as a way of telling the story, it wasn't you know, and then it became a Victorian production because, you know, we used a lot of Victorian theatre devices in that metaphor. It's wasn't particularly amazing, it was fine, it was absolutely fine, it worked well, but that was that. But I've just done a, no I'm not supposed to talk about A Midsummer Night's Dream, which is all about, you know, the actors all come on in bedclothes and go to sleep, bring beds on stage and duvets and go to sleep and then the story starts, Hippolyta and Theseus wake up first and then other people get up into their scenes, but it's like it's all a dream, you know. That's, that's, I think that's witty. It's a witty way of telling the story and it's a very kind of simple one that's right in the story. I don't really, I've never done a kind of, I hope too much of an imposed metaphor production and I don't particularly need that as an audience, I don't, you know, those are not the productions that I remember going through the years to see, if you like. Although I suppose the first Shakespeare I saw in London was Brook's Dream, which I went to see twice when I was fifteen, and I don't know was that a metaphor production, the world's a circus? I suppose it used a lot of circus kind of elements but I wouldn't call it, I don't think that meant it was a metaphor. |
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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 55.15 seconds |
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