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Edward Pisoni was a gloriously talented designer of theatre and film. But he was also a truly funny person. His critical comment, emphasized by his sardonic tone, after having seen WAR HORSE at Lincoln Center was, "The horses were really good actors". But taking him back to a time before his rise to fame, I recall him on stage in a production of MACBETH at the Webster College summer theatre, where we high school actors were assigned as partners in a sword battle--person A (me) is to cut; person B (Ed) is to parry--only neither of us remembered the fight choreography on opening night and both of us lifted our swords over our heads preparing to cut at the same time; to keep from chopping each of our silly heads in two, we simply fell down and died. Ed's periodic rendition of this story was always hilarious.

Ed will be remembered fondly by all who worked with him and by all his many friends.