Tom Piper is the RSC's Olivier Award-winning Associate Designer. He is designing Iqbal Khan's production of Much Ado About Nothing for the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, and the Noel Coward Theatre, London next year.
Tom is also working alongside the team designing Shakespeare: Staging the World - The BP Exhibition at the British Museum as part of the World Shakespeare Festival.
Tom's blog will take us from his initial research, designs and ideas through to the opening of Much Ado About Nothing and the British Museum exhibition in July.
August 16, 2012
The tech and preview period has been so hectic that there hasn't been time to draw breath, let alone type!
by Tom Piper
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July 3, 2012
Everything suddenly going very fast with time racing away... here we are well into the second week of rehearsals, and 30 or so opinions are being brought to bear on the world I am trying to create as the cast and rest of the creative team start to focus on the play in earnest.
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May 24, 2012
Been out at our workshops looking at samples of floors and experimenting with water in a 'Boys Own' kind of way. I am hoping to create a magical water moment towards the end of the play.
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March 29, 2012
We have had Himani, the costume designer we met in Delhi, over for a week of meetings and costume research in reverse.
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March 28, 2012
Have to get something ready for next Tuesday when Pete Griffin (Production Manager) and Alan Bartlett (Head of Construction and Technical Design) are coming to look at the model.
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March 27, 2012
RSC Producer Kevin Fitzmaurice offers his perspective on the recent research trip to India for Much Ado About Nothing...
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March 27, 2012
Have had another trip to Stratford to check seating layouts and discuss how we can get the Indian costume designer over to work on the project
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March 27, 2012
On way back now and trying to take stock of it all after two more days of sensual bombardment. I hope what made this more than just cultural tourism was the huge range of people we meet from all strata of society.
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March 21, 2012
Weird day of competing impressions: beginning in crowded active muslim tombs, throwing petals on the grave with more people than seems possible to fit into a 12' x 8' space and still have room for the shrine, then a beautiful but slightly uninvolving tourist experience at the carefully restored Tomb of Humayaun (does what is says on the tin).
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March 21, 2012
Delhi hardcore! Into the old town and the most extraordinary bombardment of the senses.
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