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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Video Interview Clip

- Shakespeare's Globe

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Designing Shakespeare Collection - Shakespeare's Globe
Filename	:	DS_RK_vi07.mov
Short Desc	:	Seventh video interview clip with Theatre Designer Ralph Koltai
Description	:	Question: The Globe Theatre project. Answer: Well I was involved originally, (laughs), on dear! well not really. At the very beginning I was involved with Sam Wanamaker on that, because I had worked with Sam and knew him very well and he asked me to be supportive. That was at the very very beginning when he was trying to get old bus seats for the auditorium and he was talking about a tent structure. I pointed out to him that the tent structure was a very good idea in England because it has a habit of raining and then you wouldn't hear the actors when the rain pelts down onto your tent and you would have to have a double layer of canvas in order to try and counter the noise if it rains. So fine if he uses it in Palamo, with a good chance it doesn't rain, but here it wasn't such a good idea. I went along with it for a bit and then gradually he got his act together more and more and got subsidies and so on and then I sort of, automatically I sort of withdrew from it, but in the final analysis, no I didn't have anything to do with it. Question: Do you like it as a space? Well I think Peter Hall immediately discovered that it wasn't very helpful you know, because the architects and the historians, were in charge of re-creating the space as it was, under, as they thought it was, as they believed it was, as they understood it was under, in the period of Shakespeare, but nobody actually saw that, maybe Shakespeare was terribly happy when the bloody place burnt down and thought thank god that's gone now we can build a better one, we don't know maybe he thought that because what has been finally re-created which may be more or less accurate, is not that wonderful as a space to use.
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 21.03 seconds