News & Events:
Oliver Messel study day at the V&A: V&A study day exploring the career of Oliver Messel, one of the foremost stage and interior designers of the 20th century. The event will take place at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Saturday 4 February 2012. Coinciding with the publication of a major monograph on Messel’s career, the event brings together curators and historians as well as colleagues who knew and worked with him, and examines his work for film, theatre, interiors, and architecture.
Designers are easily isolated by their work. Our Society puts us in touch with one another and with those working in theatre in other countries. Learn more about the SBTD…
From the Blue Pages Magazine:
Gloriously Impure ‘Anthony Burgess wrote in his 1970 introduction to that extraordinary book All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani, an early example of magic realism: “It is not pure English; it is like the English of Shakespeare, Joyce and Kipling, gloriously impure.” Khan, Zaidi and others like them in increasing numbers have created a brand of work that is, as Burgess saw in that early example, distinctively British.’ Rose Wend Fenton and Lucy Neal The Turning World
Lighting Kursk I had been invited to talk about my lighting design for Kursk, a theatre production based on the Russian submarine disaster of August 2000. Staged by the theatre company Sound & Fury in collaboration with Bryony Lavery. Produced by Fuel and the Young Vic Theatre, London. The play was performed at the Young Vic in May 2009, and will tour nationally and internationally from March 2010.
Catalogue Offer:
Special Catalogue Bundle Offer: For a limited period we are offering a catalogue bundle of Transformation & Revelation, Collaborators and 2D>3D for the special price of £50 including p&p. So if you are starting a performance design course this Autumn get your hands on these invaluable resources at a 20% discount. (Please note that this offer is only for UK postage, please contact us for overseas postage costs).
