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Three-part educational series which shows the backstage and onstage production of the 1999 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Richard Monette. The first...
Christie Carson interviews Chris Dyer about stage design. Dyer is Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Senior Lecturer in Design for Performance at Central Saint Martins College of Art and...
Audio lecture. Stage designer Ming Cho Lee speaks to young directors and choreographers at SDCF’s annual Symposium. The focus of the discussion is working with Shakespeare. Ming evaluates and describes his...
4 short videos, hosted on the National Theatre’s website, related to Nicholas Hytner’s 2012 production of Timon of Athens with Simon Russell Beale in the title role. TIMON THE CHARACTER: Explores the...
Theatre designer Sally Jacobs talks to Christie Carson. Jacobs reflects on working with Peter Brook on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the impact of the ‘white box’, and with John Barton on a production...
Audio lecture given by Michael Lupu, senior dramaturg for the Guthrie Theatre at the Directing Shakespeare Symposium. Lupu talks about audience expectations in the Elizabethan period, the history of...
Leslie Hurry produced the stage designs for some 60 plays, operas and ballets between 1942 and his death in 1978. His first commission was Robert Helpmann’s ballet Hamlet and as a designer for the Royal...
Theatre designer Shelagh Keegan talks to Christie Carson. Keegan talks about her approach to design (starting with copious notes from the text), her work with David Thacker, the collaborative process,...
Christie Carson interviews theatre designer Jenny Tiramani. Tirimani speaks of the influence of seeing local amateur productions as a child. She talks of her working with Ultz, John McGrath and Mark Rylance...
Slide set. Between 1906 and his death in 1931, Charles Ricketts was the foremost practising designer of his generation in England working with Shaw, Granville Barker, Yeats and Sybil Thorndike. The slides...