THE Creative o Sf F A 2)eJu,wr I N odern :Jheatre B y p A M E L A H o w A R D Production shot of Induction from the Royal Shakespeare Company production of "Shrew," The iolloll'ing is adapted hom a presentation gil'en at an O/STAT conierence in Poland last .I'ear My own approach to theatre design was well described by The eus in Act V, Scene 1 of Shake peare's A Midsummer Night's Dream-a modern theatrc designer's manifesto: 'And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Tums them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A 10c,1l habitation and a name.... " Four ideas in this speech represcllt very closely the four stages of my own creative work. TD&T * SUMMER 1 sao 5