Design
The panel — Tony Award winning lighting designer Beverly Emmons for Amadeus, Passion and The Heiress; costume designer Danny Gates (When Pigs Fly); 1997 Tony Award winners for Best Scenic Design for Jekyll and Hyde James Noone and director/designer Robin Phillips; puppeteer Basil Twist (Peter and Wendy); director Mark Waldrop (When Pigs Fly); and producer/playwright Liza Lorwin (Peter and Wendy) — talk about how designers work with directors, producers and writers; directing in addition to designing; creating pop-up sets; working with the late Howard Crabtree on When Pigs Fly, with a detailed demonstration of costumes; Jekyll and Hyde‘s movable plexiglass towers, backdrops, and lighting with new Varilights technology; and the unanswerable question of “what makes good design?”
Original airdate – September 1, 1997.
Running time – 1:30:00.
For more information, to watch online, or to download the episode go to Working in the Theatre’s Design program page.
You can also download directly the Design program (mp4).
Posted on Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
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