Looking into the abyss : essays on scenography /

• Main Author: Aronson, Arnold (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, cop. 2005.
• Series: Theater--theory/text/performance
• Subjects: Wooster Group (sidor); Urban, Joseph (sidor); Foreman, Richard (sidor); Rockwell, David (sidor); Tsypin, george (sidor); Teater; Scenografi; Theaters > Stage-setting and scenery.; Theater; Scenografi, 1900-talet; Ljussättning, 1900-talet

Table of Contents:

• Postmodern design
• Hundred years of stage lighting--why we cannot light as Appia did
• New homes for new theater
• Theater technology and the shifting aesthetic
• Behind the screen door
• Technology and dramaturgical development--five observations
• (Sceno)graphic style
• Can theater and media speak the same language?
• Looking into the abyss
• The scenography of Chekhov
• Architect of dreams--the theatrical vision of Joseph Urban
• Richard Foreman as scenographer
• The Wooster group as cartographers
• Design for Angels in America--envisioning the millennium
• The art of transition--David Rockwell and theater
• The stage is a dangerous machine--the designs of George Tsypin.