Listen: Es Devlin on Scale, Spectacle, and Storytelling

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Es Devlin by Victor Picon
Es DevlinPhotography by Victor Picon

This week on Where It’s At, stage designer Es Devlin joins Jefferson Hack to discuss crafting epic sets for Beyoncé and U2, and how nature, technology and emotion shape her powerfully immersive worlds

Jefferson Hack is joined by two-time Olivier Award-winning stage designer and artist Es Devlin in a free-ranging and awe-inspiring exchange. Devlin’s collaborators have ranged from U2, Adele and Beyoncé to Sam Mendes and Nicolas Ghesquière, and her sets take on an equally epic scale, with floating platforms, jumbo screens, vast bridges and a giant ring of fire in the Agafay desert in Morocco to name a mere few. Her work is incredibly powerful, imbued with a wonder for nature, humanity and technology and, in her hypnotic voice, her words here are too.

Listen to the new episode of Where It’s At below or wherever you get your podcasts.

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