Directors and designers
Shanna McCoy
The visionary architect Adolphe Appia saw that ‘creation’ meant the synthesis of space, light and performance achieved by one personal vision.
Merging text and vision (director and designer)
Relationship between the director and the designer meant that the designer was like the supportive “wife” who ultimately had to acquiess to the directors requests.
Philip Prowse: Believed that the best relationship with a director is one with himself. He believed in being both the designer and the director working through passion.
The artistic collaborations between composers, painters and choreographers naturally brought together the primary artists commissioned to create new work that had a sensual no-verbal impact on the spectators.
Designer as the servant to the director
Producers get the offices on higher floors with better views etc., while the other artists and designers were stuck down in the basement.
The designer can no longer be a decorator of directorial concepts, but has to be the architect of the imagination
A lateral collaboration is needed in theatre rather than a more common vertical or linear managements
Zeldin said “let us therefore move away from the labels. Stereotypes and definitions and focus our attention on what we can do, individually on the ground”
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