David Aitken Designs
David Aitken TV & Theatre Design
Discussion started by Adam Rangihana 1 year ago
TV & Theatre Design
In his early 20s, David worked in film and television as a director’s assistant and props buyer and also trained with METV ( the predecessor to SBS) to become a designer and later joined ABC TV as a design assistant. In theatre he designed for the Ensemble and New Theatre in Sydney. In 1975, he was accepted into the Master Class for Stage Design at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in Austria and graduated in 1978 with a Diploma and the Professorial Prize. During his time in Europe, David designed theatre productions in Austria, Germany and Holland and was first assistant designer at the Vienna Opera House, assisting the designer, Gunther Schneider-Siemssen along with several international Opera productions in Germany, Italy and the USA, working with directors Gotz Friedrich and Otto Schenk, and the conductor, Herbert von Karajan. He also worked with George Tambori, a leading Brecht director co-designing the Jasager/Der Neinsager for the State Theatre, Kassel. Back in Sydney, David designed Thomas Keneally’s Gossip from the Forest, Sydney Theatre Company (Sydney Opera House, 1983) and Michael Gow’s The Kid at the Nimrod Theatre (1983).
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