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Issue 25
- Spotlight on Simon Beresford, Production Designer/Creative Director
- Jacqueline Mills Releases Her Inner Child
- Technology and Set Design for Screen
- Grayson Perry – The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
- ‘Everything was glamorous and fascinating about her…’
- The Production Show Is Coming To Town
- Move over Avatar here comes Madam Butterfly
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Spotlight on Simon Beresford, Production Designer/Creative Director
How did you start as a Production Designer? I was taken to see a production of Verdi’s Macbeth at Leeds Grand Theatre when I was 14 years old, and within a second of the curtain going up I knew what … Continue reading
Jacqueline Mills Releases Her Inner Child
Words by Roger Keen The direction of Jacqueline Mills’ career as a costume designer took a definitive turn when she won an Emmy Award for her work on Jim Henson’s Mother Goose Stories, a Disney children’s production, beating strong competition. … Continue reading
Technology and Set Design for Screen
New technology is rapidly changing the path of the next generation of set designers. Hannah Halfpenny, from Wimbledon College of Art, considers how new technology is changing her world as a young set designer. Most students starting out as set … Continue reading
Grayson Perry – The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
Words by Lynda Beckett Grayson Perry first came to light in the early 80s, but winning the Turner Prize in 2003 really put him on the map. Perry was born in 1960 in Chelmsford. He’s a strange fellow with an … Continue reading
‘Everything was glamorous and fascinating about her…’
A tribute to the late theatre designer Maria Björnson Words by Daniel Vincent Although design makes an undoubtedly vital part of theatre, audiences rarely have the pleasure to witness a production where it is not the show that brings the … Continue reading
The Production Show Is Coming To Town
From the 14th – 16th February The Production Show and BVE will be at Earls Court in London. OffScreen went to speak to Charlotte Wheeler, Event Director for The Production Show, to find out more. Words by Lynda Beckett Not … Continue reading
Move over Avatar here comes Madam Butterfly
3D films from the Royal Opera House. Words by Lynda Beckett At the Royal Opera House (ROH), Covent Garden, there is a buzz of excitement running through the air as its 3D opera, Madam Butterfly, is about to go out … Continue reading
Spotlight on Michael Pickwoad – From Withnail & I to Dr Who
How did you get started as a Production Designer? My first job as Production Designer was on a series of Children’s Film Foundation films, some thirty years ago, for Saturday morning cinema, where I was single-handedly Location Manager and the … Continue reading