So I am back at The Old Globe designing the 3 plays of the 2011 season with Adrian Noble and Ron Daniels. The plays are The Tempest and Amadeus directed by Adrian and Much Ado About Nothing directed by Ron. Last week we did the technical rehearsals and 1st preview for Much Ado very successfully, and we are currently on the 3rd tech day of the Tempest. It has/is being very interesting to do 3 such different plays, not just different, but whole different approaches to the theatre.
Much Ado is, I suppose, a fairly conventional approach involving realistic, almost Chekovian 1830s costumes, lovely to do and very smart/pretty they look.
Amadeus is all about real people seen through the warped memory of Salieri himself, and involved a spin on accurate period fashion. Fun to draw, of course.
The Tempest is far more abstract - improvised almost - with much input from the actors in places
Almost the only 'concept' I had firmly in place for this were the Goddess puppets that Adrian wanted, which we decided to base on the Japanese Banruku tradition, and ideas for Ariel, particularly his Harpy wings.
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