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Jocelyn Herbert Award

The Jocelyn Herbert Award is given bi-annually on the prize-giving evening for The Linbury Prize for Stage Design. 2009 marked the fourth occasion on which it has been awarded and was judged by Tim Hatley.

The recipient of the 2009 Jocelyn Herbert Award was Christopher Faulds.

 

  • Jocelyn Herbert

    Jocelyn Herbert

    Jocelyn's family have been among the judges for the Award, alongside two leading stage designers - Hayden Griffin for 2003 and 2005 and Bob Crowley for 2007 - both of whom were close friends of Jocelyn. The Judge for the 2009 Jocelyn Herbert Award is Tim Hatley.

    The judges look for an individual imagination able to produce a fresh but focused interpretation, and for a candidate who will use the prize money to further their knowledge of working in the theatre. The judges keep in mind a quote from Jocelyn when they look through the students' work:

    "For me, there seems no right way to design a play, only, perhaps, a right approach. One of respecting the text, past or present, and not using it as a peg to advertise your skills, whatever they may be, nor to work out your psychological hang-ups with some fashionable gimmick."

    Jocelyn Herbert 1917 - 2003