• Title
  File 2: Stephen Curtis interview by Martin Portus, 23 and 30 May 2017
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  23 and 30 May 2017
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  1009276
• Physical Description
  2 audio files (2 hrs. 36 min, 1 hr., 52 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Stephen Curtis is a set and costume designer for theatre and production designer for film. His extensive theatre career spans more than three decades and embraces designs for dance, drama, opera, physical theatre and musicals, including major collaborations with Australia's leading directors, choreographers, festivals and performance companies.
  
  Stephen's designs for the stage include sets and costumes for La Bohème, The Cunning Little Vixen and Lulu (Opera Australia), I Am Eora (Sydney Festival), Pygmalion (Queensland Theatre Company), Henry IV and The Servant of Two Masters Bell Shakespeare Company, The Venetian Twins (Nimrod Theatre Company), sets for The Secret River and The Government Inspector and sets and costumes for The Country Wife (Sydney Theatre Company), The Alchemist and Scorched (Belvoir).
  
  Stephen's film production design credits include the features Looking for Alibrandi and Tracey Moffatt's Bedevil and Night Cries.
  
  For many years Stephen has also taught design for theatre and film at both a secondary and tertiary level. He developed the new degree and post-graduate curriculum in design for the Australian Film, Television and Radio School where he held the position of Head of Design for four years. Stephen has recently published Staging Ideas: set and costume design for theatre as a guide to the design process for theatre-makers and theatre-lovers.
  
  Reference: Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  Stephen Curtis's interview hightlights various aspects of his life and career: about Wangarrata childhood and the growing skills later used in his career choice; NIDA and landmark productions for STCSA and later Lighthouse ensemble in Adelaide; Sydney Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare and Belvoir productions and beginning of significant career collaborations with directors Neil Armfield, Simon Phillips, John Bell, Robyn Nevin, Wesley Enoch and many other playwrights, in theatre and opera; design approach to the premieres of works by key playwrights like Patrick White, Stephen Sewell, Michael Gow, Kath Thomson and David Williamson; experience staging Shakespeare plays, many a number of times, for the Bell Shakespeare Company and others.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Rights and Restrictions Information:: Written permission required from Stephen Curtis for public use
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded in the sound studio of the Redfern Community Centre on 23 and 30 May 2017
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Curtis, Stephen, 1957-
  
• Subject
  Curtis, Stephen, 1957---Interviews.
  Set designers--Australia.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE4674820

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