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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Video Interview Clip

- Early Productions

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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Early Productions
Filename	:	DS_RK_vi02.mov
Short Desc	:	Second video interview clip with Theatre Designer Ralph Koltai
Description	:	Question: There isn't really a traditional path as a set designer or as a stage designer, what were the sort of key stages in your career, in terms of development? Answer: Well it's an interesting question because I don't know that I had any stages. When I had my exhibition, which opened in Central St. Martins in September 1997 I then went on subsequently but it was a called a retrospective exhibition and I myself looked at my own work in order to discover when did I have the breakthrough and to sort of conceptional thought and I discovered there wasn't one. It was always there. My production, I remember one of the early ones which was 1962, for Beckett's Endgame, well, quite unconsciously, quite intuitively, quite unknowingly was based on a idea and not on a locale/environment and that was 1962 and I was looking at it in 1997 so, you know, yes of course, no, even before 1962 and I mean I started my first production in 1950/51, I mean even that was based on an idea, of course I got better at it naturally you know (laughs) but experience teaches you things but I had always appeared to have had a way of looking at it, I didn't, looking at what was important and not a matter of ''Oh yes I must make, you know, something suddenly clickå?. No nothing ever suddenly clicked at all.
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	:	1 minute 58.09 seconds