1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Scenography

Edited By Arnold Aronson Copyright 2018
    624 Pages 103 Color Illustrations
    by Routledge

    624 Pages 103 Color Illustrations
    by Routledge

    The Routledge Companion to Scenography is the largest and most comprehensive collection of original essays to survey the historical, conceptual, critical and theoretical aspects of this increasingly important aspect of theatre and performance studies.

    Editor and leading scholar Arnold Aronson brings together a uniquely valuable anthology of texts especially commissioned from across the discipline of theatre and performance studies.

    Establishing a stable terminology for a deeply contested term for the first time, this volume looks at scenography as the totality of all the visual, spatial and sensory aspects of performance. Tracing a line from Aristotle’s Poetics down to Brecht and Artaud and into contemporary immersive theatre and digital media, The Routledge Companion to Scenography is a vital addition to every theatre library.

    Introduction

    ARNOLD ARONSON

    Part I: Scenographic Elements

    1. Stage and Audience: Constructing Relations and Opportunities

    BETH WEINSTEIN

    2. Scenery

    THEA BREJZEK

    3. Costume

    MICHELLE LIU CARRIGER

    4. Light and Projection

    SCOTT PALMER

    5. Sound (design)

    DAVID ROESNER

    6. Scenography and the Senses: Engaging the tactile, olfactory, and gustatory

    STEPHEN DI BENEDETTO

    Part II: Scenographic Theory and Criticism

    7. Theatrical Languages: The Scenographic Turn and the Linguistic Turn

    AUSTIN E. QUIGLEY

    8. Seeing scenography: Scopic Regimes and the Body of the Spectator

    JOSLIN MCKINNEY

    9. Absolute, Abstract and Abject: Learning from the Event-Space of the Historical Avant-Garde

    DORITA M. HANNAH

    10. "What is happening": Notes on the Scenographic Impulse in Modern and Contemporary Art

    KEVIN LOTERY

    11. Scenography Beyond Theatre: Designing POLIN The Museum of the History of Polish Jews

    ARNAUD DECHELLE

    12. Participation, Interaction, Atmosphere, Projection: New Forms of Technological Agency and Behavior in Recent Scenographic Practice

    CHRIS SALTER

    Part III: History and Practice

    Architecture as Design

    13. Scenography in Greece and Rome: the first thousand years

    C.W. MARSHALL

    14. Imagining the Sanskrit Stage

    AMANDA CULP

    15. Tudor and Stuart Scenography

    ANDREW GURR

    16. Playing with materials: performing effect on the indoor Jacobean stage.

    JANE COLLINS

    17. Early Modern Theatres of France and Spain, 1486 -1789

    FRANKLIN J. HILDY

    18. The Open-Stage Movement

    DENNIS KENNEDY

    Spatial and Environmental Design

    19. Medieval Scenography: Places, Scaffolds, and Iconography

    GORDON KIPLING

    20. Storyteller as Time-traveler in Mohammed ben-Abdallah’s Song of the Pharaoh: Multimedia Avant-Garde Theatre in Ghana

    JESSE WEAVER SHIPLEY

    21. Environmental Theatre: Selected Asian Models

    KATHY FOLEY

    22. The City as Theatre

    MARVIN CARLSON

    23. Site Specific Theatre

    MIKE PEARSON

    24. Free reign? Designing the Spectator in Immersive Theatre

    W.B. WORTHEN

    Pictorial and Illusionistic Design

    25. The Italianate stage including the development of the proscenium, perspective, and moveable scenery.

    EVAN BAKER

    26. Restoration and 18th century England

    DAVID KORNHABER

    27. 18th-century France

    PANNILL CAMP

    28. Melodrama, Naturalism, and the box set

    AMY HOLZAPFEL

    Symbolic and Emblematic Design

    29. Richard Wagner, Georg Fuchs, Adolphe Appia, and Edward Gordon Craig

    CHRISTOPHER BAUGH

    30. Russian Stage Design and Theatrical Avant-Garde

    JULIA LISTENGARTEN

    31. Expressionism And The Epic Theater In Early Twentieth-Century German Stage Design: The Expressionist Ethos

    MEL GORDON

    32. Bertolt Brecht and Scenographic Dialogue

    CHRISTOPHER BAUGH

    33. New Stagecraft

    DAVID BISAHA

    34. Bauhaus Scenography

    MELISSA TRIMINGHAM

    Modern and Contemporary Design

    35. Metaphor, Mythology and Metonymy: Russian Scenography in the Yeltsin Era

    AMY SKINNER

     

    36. Transformation of Forms: Polish Scenography After 1950

    DOMINIKA ŁARIONOV

    37. Modern and Contemporary Czech Theatre Design: Toward Dramatic Spaces of Freedom

    BARBORA PRIHODOVA

    38. Worlds of German Design in the 21st Century

    MATT CORNISH

    39. Modern British Theatre Design: UK Design for Performance Since 1975

    KATE BURNETT

    40. Latin American Scenography

    LUIZ SA AND LIDIA KOSOVSKI

    41. Design in the United States and Canada

    ARNOLD ARONSON

    42. Spatial Oscillations in the American Avant-Garde

    STEPHEN BOTTOMS

    43. Contemporary Chinese Opera Design: The Pursuit of Cultural Awareness

    YI TIANFU

    44. Postmodern Design for Opera

    EWA KARA

    Biography

    Arnold Aronson, a theatre historian and professor of theatre at Columbia University in New York City, writes on scenography as well as modern and contemporary theatre. Books include Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design; The Disappearing Stage: Reflections on the 2011 Prague Quadrennial; Looking into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography; American Avant-Garde Theatre: A History; American Set Design and The History and Theory of Environmental Scenography. He is a former editor of Theatre Design & Technology and is currently co-editor of the journal Theatre and Performance Design. He has a long history with the Prague Quadrennial, the international exhibition of theatre and performance design and architecture, serving as President of the Jury in 1991 and 1999, curator of the US exhibit in 1995 and General Commissioner in 2007.