Scenehouse: An Intro To Designing For Live Performance

Scenehouse Intro is aimed at recent graduates and practitioners from a wide range of related disciplines who want to find out if designing for live performance is the career path for them. We will explore the role of the designer in different modes of production such as devised work, and we will also discuss the challenges and possibilities of designing for differing types of venue and audience.

The relationship between set, lighting, costume and sound design will also be considered, with input from practicing professionals. Ultimately the course is constructed to replicate the practical and creative path theatre designers take to arrive at finished Set and Costume Designs. Learning is based on a linked series of practical hands-on exercises ending in a 2-day studio period in which each participant works out their own design solution to a given text in the form of a model and/or set of costume designs.