Theatre and Performance Design A Reader in Scenography

Theatre and Performance Design: a reader in scenography gives a critical and contextual framework for analysing theatre and performance design. This book is vital for those interested in visual compositions of performance and scenographic practices. Contents: Introduction Foreword - Pamela Howard PART 1: Looking: the experience of seeing 1.1 Russell: appearance and reality 1.2 Plato: the cave 1.3 Willets: influence of linear perspective 1.4 Crary: vision and technology 1.5 Gombrich: form and function 1.6 Barthes: the photographic image 1.7 Blau: viewing the stage 1.8 Bennet: looking at 'the other' PART 2: Space and Place 2.1 Foucault: other spaces 2.2 Lefebvre: production of space 2.3 Appia: actor, space, light 2.4 McAuley: a taxonomy of stage space 2.5 Schechner: environmental theatre 2.6 Kaye: site-specific performance 2.7 Palmer and Popat: urban scenography 2.8 Todd: found spaces 2.9 Giannachi: visual environments 2.10 Bachelard: metaphysics of space 2.11 Massey: re-thinking space PART 3: The Designer: The Scenographic 3.1 Aronson: postmodern design 3.2 Till: words and images 3.3 Feinsod: new stagecraft and the work of R. E. Jones 3.4 Simonson: design for performance 3.5 Doona: Jo Mielziner's poetic realism 3.6 Baugh: Brecht: stage decoration and stage design 3.7 Barthes: diseases of costume 3.8 Kantor: autonomous theatre 3.9 Foreman: visual composition 3.10 Curtin: theatre soundscapes 3.11 Etchells: design in performance PART 4: Bodies in Space 4.1 Foucault: political anatomy 4.2 Merleau-Ponty: the seeing I 4.3 Lacquer: biological bodies 4.4 Wilson: dressing up 4.5 Craig: artists and artefacts 4.6 Schlemmer: abstracting bodies 4.7 Grotowski: essential acts 4.8 Cody: Pina Bausch and the body as text 4.9 Goodall: Stelarc: an object for designing 4.10 Obaraznek: digital fields PART 5: Making Meaning 5.1 Benjamin: art and technological reproduction 5.2 Iser: production of meaning 5.3 Tyson: semiotics, a brief introduction 5.4 Pavis: analysing performance 5.5 Brown: sound design: the scenography of engagement and distraction 5.6 Banes: aroma design 5.7 Meyerhold: leading with the imagination 5.8 Artaud: theatre of cruelty 5.9 Barker: against