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Authors: Christopher Baugh, Jane Milling (Editor), Graham Ley
ISBN-13: 9781403916976, ISBN-10: 1403916977
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: November 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Christopher Baugh

Christopher Baugh is Professor of Drama at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Book Synopsis

Technology has always been an important part of theater, both as a means to an end and as end in itself. Throughout the twentieth century a unifying attitude in all art forms is the desire to examine the materials and the tools of making art. In the theatre this approach significantly expands the relationships between technology, scenography and performance. This book explores ways in which development and change in technology have been reflected in scenography, and considers how change in scenographic identity has impacted upon the place and meaning of performance.

Table of Contents

Preface : on writing theatre history and my mother's button box
1Performing great exhibitions : a nineteenth-century speciality11
2Rejection of the past : a modern mode of thought34
3The scene as machine, 1 : scenography as a machine for performance46
4The scene as machine, 2 : constructing and building the scene as machine62
5The scene as machine, 3 : the kinetic stage machines of Josef Svoboda82
6The century of light, 1 : diffused and living light94
7The century of light, 2 : light beams and images119
8The scene as the architecture of performance145
9Some rejections of technology in theatre and performance180
10New technologies and shifting paradigms203

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