Conclusion: Practitioner Interviews

Abstract

This book concludes with interviews of two theatre practitioners who design both set and costumes for the British theatre and internationally. One is Tom Piper, who is particularly well known for his Shakespeare design. The other is Chloe Lamford, who self-identifies primarily as a designer for contemporary work; her interview sits in this book as a challenge to the dominance of the Shakespeare industry in British theatrical culture. A number of the works in the Shakespeare in Practice series conclude with practitioner interviews. Here the interviews make a particularly fitting conclusion, because this book has been about how the work of the costume designer—who in current British theatre practice is so often set designer too—makes meaning in Shakespeare production. To end with the voices of two designers is hopefully to privilege those voices and to foreground the conditions of production that make meaning from Shakespeare today.