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Obituary: Jocelyn Herbert; Spare, unfussy innovator in late-20th-century stage design.(Obituaries)
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The Independent (London, England)
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May 10, 2003| Author:
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AMONG JOCELYN Herbert's early teachers were the three women - the sisters Margaret ("Percy") and Sophie Harris and Elizabeth Montgomery - of the Motley design team. They made up the strongest influence on British theatre design during the first half of the 20th century; Herbert's career from her comparatively late start in 1956 marked her out as not only their successor but also a great innovator.
It was entirely typical of Herbert's approach to her work, which ranged from her first (and natural) home at the Royal Court and both the RSC and the National Theatre to Broadway, ...
