Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Webster’s dictionary defines ‘simple’ as free from guile or vanity, or lacking in expertise. And ‘effective’ as producing a desired effect. Yet,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMTuesday, February 11, 2020
I can’t put it off any longer, so buckle up: today we’re going to talk about designer fees. In the interest of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, January 14, 2020
I’m climbing on to my ‘why design is important’ soap box again, religious iconography and megaphone in hand, ready for another year
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, November 26, 2019
Being a freelance designer is like rocking up to a house party and changing the music to your most obscure guilty pleasure.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, October 29, 2019
This month I’ve been doing Shakespeare for the first time. The shows are currently in rehearsals, having the concept rigorously and rightfully
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMTuesday, October 1, 2019
It’s well known that theatre designers are busy. Directors always joke about it. We’re always going from tech week on one show
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, September 3, 2019
Writing during a furnace-like heatwave has been making me think, unsurprisingly, about being really hot. This year I’ve worked on quite a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, August 6, 2019
Sometimes, as theatre designers, we’re left on our own in the auditorium. Maybe it’s a lunch break during tech and we’re tweaking
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, July 9, 2019
God said: ‘Let there be light’ and there was light. And God saw the light, and it was good… but the colour
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, June 11, 2019
“It’s just pastoral care,” one designer said to me when I started. “Costume design isn’t an art form, it’s babysitting actors.” This
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, May 14, 2019
I’m going to admit a shocking truth that could see me exiled from the design community: if the van with the actors
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, April 16, 2019
There is a certain level of irony in the concept of the ‘model box presentation’. Designers are possibly the furthest thing from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, March 19, 2019
While studying theatre design in 2011, I desperately learned everything I could to one day get my work on the National Theatre’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMTuesday, February 19, 2019
Cats. Not the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, but the domestic-pet-turned-furry-internet-phenomenon. They’re cute, they’re loveable, and they’re the hot new theatre accessory to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, December 4, 2018
There’s a phrase I’ve heard a lot this year. I heard it at Improbable’s Devoted and Disgruntled get together and at the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, November 6, 2018
Close your eyes and picture a stage. Picture the set – maybe it’s a realistic room or an abstract array of colours and shapes.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
I should be reading a script, but I’m not, because I find the process scary. It’s not a fear that I’ll hate
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, September 11, 2018
I’m currently in a mid tech-week fog. We’re at that point of a production where the activity, stress and lack of sleep
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, August 14, 2018
This month I managed to sneak away for a weekend holiday. But just as I was getting into it, the inevitable happened.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, July 17, 2018
I step on to the stage from behind seamless black serge, dressed in a turtle neck. “The future is here,” I say.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, June 19, 2018
Recently, I’ve attended lots of discussions about the current state of theatre design – from the Society of British Theatre Designers conference
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
“And the whole thing is a whale carcass… because of… fear…” I tail off in a room of creatives stunned into silence.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, March 28, 2018
I’m trying to write this over the snoring of my sofa-ridden partner. It’s a Sunday afternoon, and he has been out cold
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, February 28, 2018
Lately there has been a lot of discussion about how designers can progress in this business. Whether it’s a gap between graduating
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMWednesday, January 31, 2018
What do the clothes you are wearing right now say about you? I have my costume head on, as I’m sitting at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMMonday, December 11, 2017
This month, I’ve not done a huge amount. The truth is, I have this weird empty section in my schedule. My next
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, November 15, 2017
I’ve been hanging out with a large ‘set’ of designers – the official term – this week, and it’s been a timely
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMWednesday, October 18, 2017
I’m working on a play set in a single room. I’ve done quite a few plays that are set in a single
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMWednesday, September 20, 2017
My month has largely been spent making models. For a set designer, the final model is the only chance you have to
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