Theatre and Performance Design : A Reader in Scenography

ISBN-13: 9780415432092 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 432 str.

Jane Collins;Andrew Nisbet

Opis

Theatre and performance studies, cultural theory, fine art, philosophy and the social sciences are here brought together in one volume to examine some of the principle forces that have informed the ways in which the visual practice of performance design has been produced and understood.

What is this practice called design for performance? In answering this question, the editors seek to explore the complexities of the designer’s role and the blurring boundaries between lighting, sound, costume design and scenography. Aspects of design for performance examined in detail include:

• the act of looking
• the designer
• making meaning
• the body in space
• site-specific theatre

The reader reflects on each component from a scenographic starting point while recognising links within the visual arts, cultural theory and theatre and performance studies. Theorists and practitioners include Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Artaud, Brecht, Massey, Howard and Grotowski, providing an analytical and practical basis for understanding design.

With section introductions and illustrations throughout, this new reader from Routledge provides the perfect introduction to design for theatre and performance studies.

Spis treści

Introduction  Foreword Pamela Howard  Part 1. Looking: The Experience of Seeing  Part 2. Space and Place  Part 3. The Designer: The Scenographic  Part 4. Bodies in Space  Part 5. Making Meaning

O autorze

Jane Collins is Reader in Theatre and Wimbledon College of Art, London, where she currently co-ordinates the contextual studies programme. She is a writer, director and theatre-maker, who works across the UK and internationally.

Andrew Nisbet is a lecturer at Northbrook College, Sussex, teaching theatre practice and theory. He has worked in conference, exhibition, event and temporary structure design and museum installations.