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Theatre masterclass: Mic Pool

Source: The Guardian

Sep 21, 2009

Summary

Award-wining director of creative technology Mic Pool reveals how sound and video design create a magical onstage world

What does a "director of creative technology" do?

Sound and video design, in the main. I try to come up with solutions to design problems using digital technology.

How did you get into working with theatrical sound and technology?

Originally I was a chorister at Magdalen College, but it became increasingly obvious that I wasn't going to have a career as a professional singer or musician, and I became more and more interested in theatre, and technical theatre in particular. Then I went to Mountview theatre academy in the late 1970s. Technical theatre education was very different then to what it is today – there wasn't very much formal teaching, but there were 11 shows a term that you'd work on as a student, and you could always find new ways of doing things. That was tremendously exciting.

Breakthrough production?

A play called The Ice Chimney by Barry Collins that was on at the Lyric Hammersmith, and won a Fringe First in Edinburgh in about 1980.

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