Room 103: Theatre & Performance entrance
This area introduces the unique scale and range of performance genres collected by the Theatre and Performance Department.
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Room 104: Theatre & Performance temporary exhibitions
A temporary exhibition space for Theatre and Performance exhibitions. The space also has interactive touch screens featuring Theatre and Performance online content.
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Room 104a: Experiencing Theatre & Performance
This room explores the role of the audience. Visitors can watch clips from the National Video Archive of Performance, including work by Complicité, the Royal Shakespeare Co…
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Room 104b: Designing
Stage models, sketches and paintings explain the role of the designer and their processes. On show are one of the earliest surviving set models from 1793 for a production o…
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Room 105: Costume
This section features costumes worn on stage by leading actors such as Richard Burton as Henry V and Laurence Olivier in Oedipus Rex, musical performers including Jimmy Pag…
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Room 106: Make Up
This section looks at the process and history of stage make-up, leading into the beginning of the performance costume displays. Visitors can see Kylie Minogue's dressing ro…
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Room 106a: Creating & Producing
In this area visitors can learn about the processes behind productions like 'The Miracle', 'Hamlet' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' and explore digitised pages from selected …
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Room 106b: Rehearsing & Promoting
On display in this area are highlights from Theatre and Performance's poster collection spanning the last 250 years. This room also contains the 1720 prompt book for Handel…
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Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes
Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) was an extraordinarily gifted impresario, curator, director and animator of the arts. He was perfectly at home in the wave…
Buy nowEvent - Theatre & Performance Galleries Tour
Fri 19 February 2010–Tue 31 December 2013
TOUR: Take a guided tour of the V&A's exciting theatre and performance collections, including rock & pop posters, theatre and ballet costumes, puppets, stage sets and more! See new costumes from the Lion King now on display.
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