Directors and Designers

- There use to be no excitement in theatres
- There was a lot of animosity between the director and the set designers
- To make harmony there must be a merging of the director and the set designer
- 1998 a conference was held because of this conflict
- Designers were scared of being on the panal
- They would try to get away from the conflict
- It is like marriage the relationship that they need to have
- Directors would get fresh set designers from college so that they could control them
- Being selfish does not get the job done well
- Robert Edmund Jones wrote in Theatre Arts monthly and spoke about the unity of the different roles
- The better the unity the better the show is going to be
- Joe Mielziner talks about the relationship of the directors make it better for all those involved
- Rehearsals will go faster
- Set designers should come to rehearsals
- The staging of a show will help influence the set or visa versa
- In the manifesto of 2004 there was an agreement of the togetherness of the designers and directors
- Theatre has not been the same since