Designers' Shakespeare

Copertina anteriore
John Russell Brown, Stephen Di Benedetto
Routledge, 5 mag 2016 - 220 pagine

Theatre Design involves everything seen on stage: not only scenery but costumes, wigs, makeup, properties, lighting, sound, even the shape and material of the stage itself. Designers’ Shakespeare presents and analyses the work of a half-dozen leading practitioners of this specialist art. By focusing specifically on their Shakespearean work, it also offers a fresh, exciting perspective on some of the best-known drama of all time.

Shakespeare’s plays offer an unusual range of opportunities to designers. As they were written for a theatre which gave no opportunity for scenic support or embellishment, designers are freed from any compulsion to imitate original practices. This has resulted in the extraordinarily diverse range of works presented in this volume, which considers among others the work of Josef Svoboda, Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Ming Cho Lee, Alison Chitty, Robert Wilson, Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Filter Theatre, Catherine Zuber, John Bury , Christopher Morley, Ralph Koltai and Sean Kenny.

Designers’ Shakespeare joins Actors’ Shakespeare and Directors’ Shakespeare as essential reading for lovers of Shakespeare from theatre-goers and students to directors and theatre designers.

 

Pagine selezionate

Sommario

1 Looking at contemporary design practice and Shakespeare
1
Josef Svobodas Shakespearean imagination
12
towards an empty space
38
unfolding Shakespeares space
54
5 Ming Cho Lee
81
6 Alison Chitty the public sketch
102
7 Robert Wilson
118
Catherine Zubers costume design for Nicholas Hytners Twelfth Night 1998
137
connecting past and present
152
performing truemeant design that risky and dangerous negotiation between a doing and a thing done
170
Afterword
195
Index
198
Copyright

Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto

Designers' Shakespeare
John Russell Brown,Stephen Di Benedetto
Anteprima limitata - 2016
Designers' Shakespeare
John Russell Brown,Stephen Di Benedetto
Anteprima non disponibile - 2016
Designers' Shakespeare
John Russell Brown,Stephen Di Benedetto
Anteprima non disponibile - 2016
Visualizza tutto »

Parole e frasi comuni

action actors aesthetic Alison Chitty approach architecture Arden artistic audience back wall Beaumont Theater Berliner Ensemble Brook Catherine Zuber century characters Chitty’s collaboration colour complex contemporary costume design court space created creative critical cultural Delacorte design for Shakespeare design practice designer’s director dramatic dramaturgical elements Elizabethan environment experience Figure film Filter’s forest Hall’s Hamlet Herrmann historical image space interpretation Josef Svoboda King Lear language Lee’s light London Macbeth material metaphorical Midsummer Night’s Dream Ming Cho Lee modern opera Othello Performance Design Peter Hall Photo platform play’s political Prague proscenium Renaissance reproduced with permission role Roman Tragedies Routledge Royal Shakespeare Company Ruth Walz scene scenic scenography Schaubühne Shakespeare productions Shakespeare’s Memory Shakespeare’s plays Shakespeare’s text Sonnets sound design spatial spectators stage floor Stein storyboard Stratford style theatre’s theatrical tion Toneelgroep Amsterdam Twelfth Night visual Vivian Beaumont Theater Wilson words York Shakespeare Festival

Informazioni sull'autore (2016)

John Russell Brown directed plays in England, the USA and around the world. He was an Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre for fifteen years, and chaired the Drama Panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain. He authored numerous works on Shakespeare and contemporary theatre, including New Sites for Shakespeare (Routledge, 1999) and Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event (2002).

Stephen Di Benedetto is currently an Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Theory at the University of Miami. He is the Book Review Editor (North America), for Theatre Research International. Dr. Di Benedetto has held teaching positions at the University of Houston; the Drama Studies Centre; University College Dublin; National University of Ireland; and at DePaul University. He has contributed scholarly essays as part of The Senses in Performance: Taste, Touch, Smell, and Sound in the Theatre (Routledge, 2006); Patronage, Spectacle and the Stage (Prague Theatre Institute, 2006); Space and the Postmodern Stage (Prague Theatre Institute, 2000); and The Professions in Contemporary British Drama (Intellect Books, 2003).

Informazioni bibliografiche

TitoloDesigners' Shakespeare
CuratoriJohn Russell Brown, Stephen Di Benedetto
EditoreRoutledge, 2016
ISBN1317911784, 9781317911784
Lunghezza220 pagine
  
Esporta citazioneBiBTeX EndNote RefMan