Rhiannon, Zoe and myself met with Will, our tutor on this project, to assign the scripts we would be designing. The scripts we 'Top Girls' (written by Caryl Churchill) and 'In Extremis' (written by Howard Brenton); I had to read both scripts before the meeting and honestly I initially preferred the script for 'Top Girls'. However, during the course of the meeting it was decided that 'In Extremis' would need two designers, one for set and one for costume, whereas 'Top Girls' would have one designer doing both set and costume design. I was eager to focus fully on costume design, as I feel I am stronger in this area and I have less of an interest in set design. It all worked out quite nicely as Rhiannon was keen to just focus on set design and Zoe said she worked well by doing set and costume together, so the result was that Rhiannon and I would work together on 'In Extremis' while Zoe designed 'Top Girls'.
On reflection I am actually quite happy with the outcome of the tutorials, I didn't dislike the script for 'In Extremis', and now I have read it a few more times I am beginning to appreciate the nature of the play and the intricacies in the dialogue and dialectical exchanges. I have never designed for this period before and I think it will be a new exciting challenge for me. I said in my learning agreement that I wanted to keep part 1 of SDP away from collaboration but that part 2 would involve a lot of collaboration and I am happy to be working with Rhiannon on this project and hopefully we can work together closely to keep our ideas linked to make sure there isn't a visual separation in our designs. The next step for me now is to begin researching the context of the play and the lives of Peter Abelard and Heloise and discussing initial ideas with Rhiannon.
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