Paul Shelving
British theatre designer
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Paul Shelving (1888–1968) was a British theatre designer.[1] He worked at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and for the Malvern Festival and at the Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. He joined the Birmingham Repertory Theatre soon after First World War.[2] He designed productions for over forty years.[3]
His designs covered many styles. In The Immortal Hour he produced a mysterious forest in the symbolist style, with patterned tree trunks and a misty atmosphere.[4]
For the 1923 production of Cymbeline, Shelving's modern setting and dress was one of the first of its kind.[4]
His designs for The Tempest at Stratford in 1946 was "magical and fantastic with ranges of coloured crags. Shelving was a fine colourist who enjoyed blocking out broad masses in patterns."[4]