Watching, Making, Shaping
(Record Today for Tomorrow)
Respondent or information from other source:
Jill Evans, Producer, National Video Archive of Performance
Aims, policies, purpose/impetus for project:
Forms part of the larger project ÔCapacity Building and Cultural Ownership - the V&A in partnership with culturally diverse communities', designed to encourage more culturally diverse groups to use the V&A. Watching, Making, Shaping was designed to enable culturally diverse groups to preserve their own intangible heritage by making archival recordings of performances, together with interviews with makers and participants.
Dates: 2005-2007
Key individuals and roles involved Jill Evans, co-ordinator, Chris Sims
Paid or voluntary, training in oral history:
Project centred on trainees, about 45 over the run of the project (5 courses), targeting especially those from ethnic groups reflected in the specific productions chosen for recording e.g. African and Caribbean in case of first course focusing on August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean. Some more successful than other in this recruitment. Trainees were voluntary, acquiring skills on free course.
Project funded by: HLF
Management of project: V&A/Theatre Museum
Format of interviews:
Mini-DV will be copied to DVD.
Edited little films were produced on DV Cam using interview footage and extracts from recorded productions for 4 out of the 5 courses. All will be copied to DVD for viewing copies.
How interviewees are selected and located:
Those involved in shows selected to record e.g. directors, designers, selected performers, some audience members
Interview running time: Usually around 20 mins
Copyright in interviews. Assignment rights?:
Held by Museum.
Rights forms usually signed
Location of interview copies. Accessibility to public/format:
Through Blythe House Study Room. Accessible on demand at reasonable period of notice. Email tmenquiries@vam.ac.uk to book a viewing appointment. Extracts from each available on website
Collection contact details/website:
Record Today for Tomorrow
Interview transcripts/lists of topics or other content indexes:
Extracts on website are transcribed
Cataloguing: They will be
Future plans for project/interviews?:
Use on website, touring exhibition
Materials used for publications, exhibitions, conferences, radio/TV programmes or performances etc or future plans for this?:
Project website: Record Today for Tomorrow
List on a joint (possibly STR) website: Yes
Join listserv/emailing list/forum Yes
Further information:
List of interviewees provided: Yes
Interviewees
Interviews centred round those involved in five productions and were conducted by trainees on the series of courses
Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson
Tricycle Theatre, 2005
Director: Paulette Randall
Designer: Libby Watson
Stage Managers: Deborah Suggit & Lizzie Chapman
Critics: Kwame Kwei-Armah & Baz Bamigboye
Performers: Carmen Munroe & Jenny Jules
Company Artistic Director: Nicolas Kent
Deadeye by Amber Lone
Kali Theatre Company, Soho Theatre, 2006
Director: Janet Steel
Designer: Matthew Wright
Performers: Sakuntala Ramanee, Beth Vyse & Chetna Pandya
Company Artistic Director Jatinder Verma
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
The Roundhouse, Camden, 2007
Director: Tim Supple
Design /Music/ Dance: D. Padmakumar and M. Palani
Stage Manager: Shankar Arora
Performers: Shanaya Rafaat & Yuki Ellias
Critics: Keith Khan
Company Artistic Director: Quasar Padamsee
Typhoon Live: Getting Married by Yi Kang-Baek, and
Dogs by Elangovan
Yellow Earth Theatre, at Oval House London, 2007
Director Philippe Cherbonnier Kwong Loke
Design /Music/ Dance Yoon Bae
Stage Manager Jen Llewellyn
Performers: Jamie Zubairi
Critics Matthew Cohen
Company Artistic Directors David Tse
A Christmas Carol (Ikrismas Kherol) by Charles Dickens, adapted by Mark Dornford-May
Isango/Portobello Company: Young Vic Theatre, London, 2007
Director: Mark Dornford-May
Design /Music/ Dance: Charles Hazelwood
Critic: Michael Billington
Performer: Pauline Malefane
Company Artistic Directors David Lan
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