Notes on "Directors and Designers is There a Different Direction" Oddey pg. 25

This reading was about directors and designers in a theater setting and how their collaboration is very often uneasy.

-In 1988 at Riverside Studios The Society of British Theatre Designers organized a conference between designers and directors.

-Many directors didn't claim to have any trouble when it came to collaborating with designers

-Many of the designers didn't want to express their true beliefs for fear of not being able to get any work.

-Often when a director felt things were going well with the designer, the designer had taken the easiest way out in order to avoid conflict.

-The role of the stage director came from producers giving their responsibilities to others. They were charged with developing the producer's wish.

-The reading compares the early designer/director relationship to the classic master/servant relationship. This meant it was more of an illusion that the designer and director were collaborating, when the director was in charge and the designer was mostly assisting the director.

-Designers are meant to be architects of imagination, not merely a decorator of directional concepts.