Chairs in conversation

‘The moment you ask for chairs someone has to decide which chairs.’

– Lindsay Anderson

‘…as I stand here trying to remember my text, for some reason my father is coming in to my mind. Why is that? […] Perhaps I thought about my father because this chair was his. I know it. He sat on it. And so did my grandfather. In fact it’s a chair I know very well because I have used it in several of my shows. It was in a show called The Chairs actually…’

– Theatre de Complicite, Mnemonic, 1999

This evolving series describes productions designed by Jocelyn Herbert (and the chairs in them), listed by the theatres in which they took place.