Theatre, Performance and Technology: The Development and Transformation of Scenography

ISBN-13: 9781137005847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 308 str.

Christopher Baugh

Opis

Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performance, urban scenography and how scenography has developed as a collaborative practice.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations General Editors' Preface Preface: On Writing Theatre History and My Mother's Button Box Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Performing Great Exhibitions: A Nineteenth-Century Speciality 2. Rejection of the Past: A Modern Mode of Thought 3. The Scene as Machine: Part 1: Scenography as a Machine for Performance 4. The Scene as Machine: Part 2: Constructing and Building the Scene as Machine 5. The Scene as Machine: Part 3: The Kinetic Stage Machines of Josef Svoboda 6. The Century of Light: Part 1: Diffused and Living Light 7. The Century of Light: Part 2: Light Beams and Images 8. The Scene as the Architecture of Performance 9. Some Rejections of Technology in Theatre and Performance 10. New Technologies and Shifting Paradigms 11. Scenography as Dramaturgy and Technology of Performance Notes Further Reading Bibliography Index.

O autorze

Christpoher Baugh is Emeritus Professor of Performance and Technology at the University of Leeds and Professor of Theatre at the University of Hull, UK. He is a practising scenographer and has published numerous texts on the history and theory of scenography.

Blurb

Throughout history, scenography has played a significant role in theatre, always drawing upon the latest technologies of manufacture and control. In the twenty-first century, it is fast becoming an artistic practice in its own right, engaging with audiences in varied ways. Christopher Baugh considers how change in scenographic identity has impacted upon the place and meaning of performance over the past 300 years.
 
Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition discusses:
• moving light technologies
• the Internet as a platform of performance
• urban scenography
• scenography's role in the creation of memory
• the development of scenography as a collaborative practice.