Designer Lorenzo Savoini
Lorenzo Savoini is the director of design at Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto, one of the most successful theatres to be founded in the last 20 years and one that continues to push the envelope on what theatre can or should be. Lorenzo tells me about his time growing up in Thorn Hill Ontario and his adventures at UBC, Stratford and for the last 10 years, at Soulpepper. For the second half of this marathon interview, we chat about his philosophy of design and how he is working to develop the next generation of designers who face a world that is both uncertain but alive with potential. We recorded the interview in May of 2016 in the Soulpepper library.
Links
University of Guelph Theatre Arts
Alan Watts (see "Sculpted Spaces: Jim Plaxton in conversation with Alan Watts, from Canadian Theatre Review #54)
House by Daniel MacIvor
University of British Columbia MFA in Theatre
Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
Wagner's The Ring Cycle by Michael Levine
The Sound of Music at The Stratford Festival 2001
Timon of Athens at The Stratford Festival 2004
Umbuntu (The Capetown Project)
BLiNK by the 2010 SoulpepperAcademy
Of Human Bondage by Sommerset Maughm at Soulpepper Theatre
CAGE at Soulpepper Theatre
Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, Soulpepper Theatre, Director: Alan Dilworth, Set and Costume Design: Lorenzo Savoini, Lighting Design: Kim Purtell, Sound Design: Debashis Sinha, Actors: Michelle Monteith, Courtney Ch'ng Lancaster, Oyin Oladejo,
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Soulpepper Theatre
Director: Daniel Brooks, Set design: Lorenzo Savoini, Lighting Design: Kevin Lamotte, Sound Design: Richard Feren, Actors: Katherine Gauthier, Christopher Morris