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)
Christopher Baugh is Professor of Drama at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
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.
Preface : on writing theatre history and my mother's button box | ||
1 | Performing great exhibitions : a nineteenth-century speciality | 11 |
2 | Rejection of the past : a modern mode of thought | 34 |
3 | The scene as machine, 1 : scenography as a machine for performance | 46 |
4 | The scene as machine, 2 : constructing and building the scene as machine | 62 |
5 | The scene as machine, 3 : the kinetic stage machines of Josef Svoboda | 82 |
6 | The century of light, 1 : diffused and living light | 94 |
7 | The century of light, 2 : light beams and images | 119 |
8 | The scene as the architecture of performance | 145 |
9 | Some rejections of technology in theatre and performance | 180 |
10 | New technologies and shifting paradigms | 203 |