Paul Shelving

Paul Shelving was a theatre designer, who worked at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and for the Malvern Festival and at the Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. He joined the Birmingham Repertory Theatre soon after First World War. [1] He designed productions for over forty years.[2]

His designs covered many styles. In The Immortal Hour he produced a mysterious forest in the symbolist style, with patterned tree trunks and a misty atmosphere. [3]

For the 1923 production of Cymbeline, Shelving's modern setting and dress was one of the first of its kind.[3]

His designs for The Tempest at Stratford in 1946 was "magical and fantastic with ranges of coloured crags. Shelving was a fine colourist who enjoyed blocking out broad masses in patterns." [3]

References

  1. ↑ Gill, Maud (1948). See the Players (Second ed.). Birmingham: George Ronald. p. 267.
  2. ↑ Cochrane, Claire (2003). The Birmingham Rep: A City's Theatre 1962-2002. Birmingham: Sir Barry Jackson Trust.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Rosenfeld, Sybil (1973). A Short History of Scene Design in Great Britain. Oxford: Blackwell.