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Directors & Designers
Directors and Designers explores the practice of scenography—the creation of perspective in the design and painting of stage scenery—and offers new insight into the working relationships of the people responsible for these theatrical transformations. With contributions from leading practitioners and theorists, editor Christine White describes the way in which the roles of director and designer have developed over time. Featuring chapters on theater and site-specific performance, theatrical communication and aesthetics, and the cognitive reception of design by the audience, this volume provides a valuable resource on current approaches to scenography for professionals and students.
272 pages | 9 halftones | 7 x 9 | © 2009
Art: Art--General Studies
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Table of Contents
Part I: Setting the Scene
Chapter 1: Back and Forth to Russia: Scenography as an Academic Study from Moscow 1994-St Petersburg 2004
Christine White
Part II: Performing Partners
Chapter 2: Hand in Glove: The Designer as Director as Designer
Charles Erven
Chapter 3: Political Performing Partners: Director Lee Strasberg, Scene Designer Mordecai Gorelik, Playwright John Howard Lawson and the Group Theatre
Anne Fletcher
Chapter 4: The Director, the Designer and the Ghost/Creative Team in Site-Specific Performance Practice
Kathleen Irwin
Chapter 5: Director Petr Lébl and Designer William Nowák: To a Man
Věra Velemanová
Chapter 6: The Organics of the Rehearsal Room: Contemporary Directing Practice and the Director-Designer Relationship
Alison Oddey
Chapter 7: Collaborative Models: Mielziner, Williams and Kazan
Julia Listengarten
Chapter 8: Problematics of Theatrical Negotiations: Directing, Scenography and State Ideology
Julia Listengarten
Chapter 9: Methodological Practices for Directing and Designing
Christine White
Chapter 10: The Digital Platform as a Communication Tool
Adele Keeley
Part III: Metaphors, Metatheatre & Methodologies
Chapter 11: The Seductive Scene or Reclaiming Spectacle
Christine White
Chapter 12: Metatheatre: A Discourse on Contemporary Staging
Ewa Wąchocka
Chapter 13: A Metaphorical Mise-en-Scène: Elia Kazan and Max Gorelik at The Group Theatre
Scott Dahl
Chapter 14: Ideational Conflict and Resolution in the Design Process: Positive Outcomes from Negative Relationships
Harry Feiner
Chapter 15: Design a Action: Jean Cocteau and the Ballets Russes
Gregory Sporton
Part IV: Postscript to the Director
Chapter 16: From Hamlet with Love: A Letter to the Other
Lilja Blumenfeld
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index