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Post by barrowside on Nov 13, 2024 16:10:11 GMT
The passing of the celebrated British television, film and theatre designer Eileen Diss has been announced. She had a five or six decade long career starting at the BBC in the 1950s. In Dublin at The Gate Theatre in the 1990s she became known for beautiful, elegant period settings for Friel, Wilde, Coward and Chekhov. She was also the preferred designer of Harold Pinter and designed many of his plays and productions in London and Dublin. Her work had an elegance and panache that is rarely surpassed.
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Post by Jan on Nov 14, 2024 18:45:05 GMT
I saw a couple of productions she designed. The 30th anniversary production of The Caretaker in 1991 with Donald Pleasance returning to the role he'd played in the first production (Colin Firth was in it too), then the NT 2001 production of No man's Land with Corin Redgrave and John Wood (and Danny Dyer). Both directed by Harold Pinter.
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Post by bee on Nov 18, 2024 9:28:58 GMT
Coincidentally, I was just checking the only time I saw Timothy West on stage, a production of 12 Angry Men at the then Comedy Theatre in 1996. She was the designer on that as well, also with Pinter as director. It had quite a strong cast, Kevin Whately in the Henry Fonda role with Peter Vaughan, Tim Healy and Tony Haygarth.
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