Monday, December 04, 2023
Bob Shaw (‘The Gilded Age’ production designer) video interview
GoldDerby: “Bertha is a woman of boundless ambition and if she’s a social climber, she still hasn’t reached the summit,” explains production designer Bob Shaw about the every-expanding scope of the HBO series “The Gilded Age.” Now in its second season, the series centers on Bertha (Carrie Coon), the wife of industrialist robber baron George Russell (Morgan Spector), who attempts to elbow her way into the moneyed society of “old New York.” The designer explains that the biggest challenge of this season versus the first “was to try to be a little bigger.”
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This was so fascinating to read. I love hearing the backstories behind shows, and the production designer’s journey through the creative process. I myself got into theater and the design field due to my interest in watching all the behind-the-scenes on films. And Shaw is such an interconnection between the theater and film worlds! It’s so cool that he drew on his interest in opera to create the theater in the show. I love how we can draw on our niche passions in this field and they can be so useful in our work when creating certain pieces. I find it so interesting the fact how one goes about filming a theater, or making the theater experience still feel alive despite being on screen. The similarities between film and theater are vast, however the differences are quite significant, after all, film is magic but live theater is something that cannot be recreated over a screen. It was also super interesting reading about Newport, and how it seems to be covered in set pieces.
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