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MA Courses
Profile: Ippolita Valentinetti Current student: MA Theatre Design
I graduated in November 2012 with a BA degree in Theatre Set Design from the Art Academy of Brera in Milan. I moved to London in February 2013 eager to engage in a specialist course and proactive about finding work experience in my field of study.
plays: Malvolio, Twelth Night; Banquo, Macbeth; Caliban, The Tempest and Peaseblossom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I chose Caliban from The Tempest, as I was especially interested in Shakespeare’s last plays, his Romances, having worked on one of them for my BA disser tation.
In parallel with the course projects I’m continuing my personal research, which started When in London, I started searching for the with my BA dissertation, on the importance right MA course. I did my online research and of images and visual memory in my work process. went to the open-days. I applied to three different Specifically, on how iconographic research can courses but eventually decided that the MA in help the designer in constructing the relation Theatre Design at Wimbledon College of Art ships between the space and their design and the (WCA) was the right direction to take; I wanted to performer or actor and their costume. define and enhance my research in the field of set and costume design and have the opportunity to build future working collaborations. The MA in Theatre Design at WCA offered all these prospects. An MA is challenging and intense; you are put in a position where you must constantly question your practice against your theoretical research and vice versa. For our first Theatre Design project we had to pick a re-invented monologue by Tim Crouch (an actor and director) from one of Shakespeare’s characters. Crouch re-creates through monologue the sub plot of a lesser known character from four popular Shakespeare