Though he was a painter to reckon with, Peter Snow’s main activity,
reputation and indeed love were all sited in the theatre. His
reputation as a stage designer was made overnight in 1955 when he
designed Waiting for Godot, Peter Hall’s epoch-making production at
the Arts Theatre in London. In tune with Samuel Beckett’s severely
stripped-down text and Hall’s skeletal production, which created a
sensation and first introduced British audiences to the Theatre of the
Absurd, Snow’s setting was reduced to bare essentials, creating a
bleak but arguably realistic environment for the inconclusive story of
two tramps waiting for someone or something that never comes.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4685784.ece
Peter Snow, designer, painter and teacher, was born on June 6, 1927.
He died on August 29, 2008, aged 81
