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Urban Dreams design at national exhibition
Post date: Wednesday March 16, 2011Urban Dreams, Bubble's participatory project for 2008, has been chosen for a National Exhibition of Theatre Design in Cardiff.
Pip Nash, the designer for Urban Dreams chose this particular work exhibit Urban Dreams because she "felt proud of it as a piece of theatre, and felt it had been created by a very interesting process, involving a lot of people."
She also says, "I also wanted to show it as a tribute to two particular people who had been involved with that production and many other Bubble shows, Linda Dobell and Lesley King who have since both tragically departed."
"I have worked with Linda over several years at the Bubble and before that at the Duke's Playhouse in Lancaster. I always found working with Linda a joy, because of her humour, her scurrilous irreverence and gentle debunking but also her originality and fierce professionalism, all of which were combined within her work, as a performer and as a choreographer. She respected design where it worked together with the performance. If it was intrusive towards an actors process she said so, but she also defended design ideas where she felt they added value and understanding to a production even if they had to be especially carefully rehearsed in to a piece. I chose to model a particular moment in Urban Dreams which shows the Beach Dance. I remember the sessions where Linda choreographed this particularly well; teenagers dipping their toes into the cold sea, waving off flies and looking out to sea, all repetitively at high speed in small groups nearly crashing in to each other. It still gives me pleasure remembering it and the chaos of rehearsing it."
"I also wanted to remember Lesley in this exhibition. I worked with her on two Bubble Productions, Forty Walls and Urban Dreams. Leslie was always so enthusiastic and supportive to the company, enjoying every part of the rehearsal and performance process. She was really game in Forty Walls where she had to wear a school uniform, so in this production I think she really liked the fact that her costume was a rather more glamorous 1950's sun dress. Lesley was also a significant character in the Beach Scene and so I have made a model of her doing the Beach Dance."
The exhibition Transformation and Revelation, is on at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama between 18th March and 16th April.
More details on the Society of British Theatre Design Website www.theatredesign.org.uk
See photos from Bubble's 2008 production of Urban Dreams here