Directors & Designers
Directors & Designers (Book)
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 theatre 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.
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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.
Christine White is head of narrative and interactive arts in the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University.
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 – Vera 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 Waçhocka
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 as 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
