Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
