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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Video Interview Clip

- Audience Changes

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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Audience Changes
Filename	:	DS_RK_vi11.mov
Short Desc	:	Eleventh video interview clip with Theatre Designer Ralph Koltai
Description	:	Question: Which I guess also leads to the question of whether you think the audience has changed dramatically over the period that you have been designing. Has there been a greater increase in say the visual literacy or is it just the economic environment that you think has changed? Answer: Well I don't think you can put a certain label on it saying how the audience is like this and used to be like that. The audience is society and society changes as the world moves on and so their likes and dislikes change as we move on. The period of the big mega musicals is now on the decline, why is it on the decline? I don't know. Maybe the audience has got bored with seeing Cats and Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, you know big mega musicals and Phantom of the Opera and would like to see, are more excitied by seeing things at The Warehouse in a small space. I think that Andrew Lloyd Webber himself has been quoted in recent times as saying that he thinks the mega musical has had its day and it's not because the musicals are now less good it's because the audience, for some reason or other, or the big audiences or the big numbers, maybe have had a surfeit of it and are looking for something else. So yes, audiences do change but this is because for no other reason than that as we move on in our lives, things do change you know and then our responses change. I mean you could, look I mentioned Damien Hirst a little while ago, I mean the excitement that is caused by Damien Hirst, for, what's his stuff called? formaldehide with sheep in it and so on, but if he had done that 20 years ago, that simply would have got thrown out, today Saatchi & Saatchi buys its, pays £1,000,000 for it so there you are, things change.
Source	:	DS_20_06_01 (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	:	2 minutes 16.25 seconds