164 Pages
    by Routledge

    164 Pages
    by Routledge

    Focused on the contemporary Anglophone adoption from the 1960s onwards, Beyond Scenography explores the porous state of contemporary theatre-making to argue a critical distinction between scenography (as a crafting of place orientation) and scenographics (that which orientate acts of worlding, of staging).

    With sections on installation art and gardening as well as marketing and placemaking, this book is an argument for what scenography does: how assemblages of scenographic traits orientate, situate, and shape staged events. Established stage orthodoxies are revisited - including the symbiosis of stage and scene and the aesthetic ideology of 'the scenic' - to propose how scenographics are formative to all staged events. Consequently, one of the conclusions of this book is that there is no theatre practice without scenography, no stages without scenographics.

    Beyond Scenography offers a manifesto for a renewed theory of scenographic practice for the student and professional theatrical designer.

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    Scenography as theatre-making

    Theatre after cinema

    Scenography after performance

    Chapter outline

    Chapter 1: Place Orientation, Scenic Politics and Scenographics

    Scenes and Scenic Politics

    Scenographics

    Othering Tactics

    Chapter 2: Scenography and the Anglophone theatres

    The first adoption of scenography

    Continental differences pre-1960

    The second adoption of scenography

    Sound and costume as scenography

    Chapter 3: Scenography beyond scenographers

    Mise en scène and scenography

    Whose scenography?

    Beyond dramaturgy and choreography

    Expanded scene design?

    Chapter 4: Scenography Happens

    The time of scenography

    Scenography is not set

    Gecko’s MISSING set

    Chapter 5: Scenographic Worlding

    Stage Geographies

    Stage Ideologies

    Scenography beyond stages?

    Stage-Scenes beyond vision

    Chapter 6: Scenographic Cultures

    Installation Art and Scenographic Scale

    Interior Design and Scenographic Behaviours

    Marketing and Scenographic Seduction

    Gardening and Scenographic Curation

    Protest and Scenographic Activism

    Chapter 7: Scenographic Architecture

    Fast Architecture

    Trompe l'oeil and Scenographic Propaganda

    Potemkin Villages and Scenographic Placemaking

    Conclusion

    Biography

    Dr. Rachel Hann is Lecturer in Scenography, University of Surrey, UK.

    "[Beyond Scenography] remains a thought-provoking and much-needed theoretical contribution to the sprawling domain of scenography studies and related performance disciplines. The book’s hugely relevant and historically underpinned theoretical take on such diverse topics as installation art, interior design, gardening and marketing renders it essential reading for a much broader academic audience. […] I recommend Beyond Scenography as necessary reading for scholars, students and practitioners engaged in cross-disciplinary studies of art and performing arts history and practice, architecture, urban sociology and beyond."

    Astrid von Rosen, University of Gothenburg, Theatre and Performance Design, 7:3-4, 240-241, DOI: 10.1080/23322551.2021.2003155