The Jocelyn Herbert Award

"For me, there seems no right way to design a play, only, perhaps, a right approach. One of respecting the text, past or present, and not using it as a peg to advertise your skills, whatever they may be, nor to work out your psychological hang-ups with some fashionable gimmick." Jocelyn Herbert 1917 - 2003

The Jocelyn Herbert Award is given by the Linbury Trust and Jocelyn's family to the candidate who epitomises Jocelyn's belief in theatre. The successful candidate needs to have:

	A genuine interest in all aspects of theatre and belief in the importance of the collaborative effort needed to make the end result work at its best, in short a passion for the art of theatre
	An exciting imagination and the artistic skill to visually demonstrate their ideas clearly
	A respect and feeling for the original work being designed - text or music
	A strength of personality and determination to see the work process through to the end
	A desire for further study, time or simply some space to develop their ideas or missing knowledge