Theatre, Performance and Technology The Development and Transformation of Scenography

by Baugh, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9781137005847
• ISBN10: 113700584X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-01-21
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

CHRISTOPHER BAUGH is Professor of Theatre at th University of Hull, and Emeritus Professor of Performance and Technology at the University of Leeds.  He is himself a professional stage designer, is Chair of the Society for Theatre Research's Research Committee, was on the planning committee for The Globe Theatre, Bankside, and is editor of the journal Scenography International (with Christine White).

Table of Contents

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