ADRIANNE LOBEL SET DESIGNER AND ARTIST
“…During the worst part of the pandemic, March and April of 2020, I was sitting around in my country house with not much to do so I decided to write my life’s story. Adrianne Lobel – Moving Scenery. A Memoir is the result. It follows my life from childhood, through my checkered education, my working years in Hollywood, my studies at Yale, and my ensuing international career as a stage designer. I write about my collaborations with Peter Sellars, Mark Morris, James Lapine and Francesca Zambello, among others. I have included development sketches of a number of productions which will illuminate my process. I also touch upon my sometimes heartbreaking personal life. I hope it is a fast paced, amusing, and exciting read. It was fun to write and I am thrilled that The Scenographer has published it…”
(Adrianne Lobel)
Adrianne emerged into the theater, opera, and dance world of the ‘80s with electrifying energy, intelligence, rigor, hilarity, and unlimited talent. Outrageously imaginative, ferociously smart, and fiercely devoted to exacting research, she was from the beginning driven by a perfectionist ethic of realization, refinement, and her own breathtaking clarity. Her quality of line exemplifies her commitment to truth-telling. An Adrianne Lobel line takes no prisoners. It is sharp, demanding, definitive, disturbing, and impeccable – ideal for high comedy, devastating wit, or for the slitting of wrists. Proportion in Adrianne’s work is both an advanced science and a religion – emotional weight, equilibrium, scrupulous fairness, and the presence of secret harmony within tension, pressure, and heartbreak, quietly signaling the abiding existence of hope. Adrianne is simply a master of color.
(Peter Sellers / Theatre Director)
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