Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performance, urban scenography and how scenography has developed as a collaborative practice.Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performance, urban scenography and how scenography has developed as a collaborative practice.
List of Illustrations General Editors' Preface Preface: On Writing Theatre History and My Mother's Button Box Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Performing Great Exhibitions: A Nineteenth-Century Speciality 2. Rejection of the Past: A Modern Mode of Thought 3. The Scene as Machine: Part 1: Scenography as a Machine for Performance 4. The Scene as Machine: Part 2: Constructing and Building the Scene as Machine 5. The Scene as Machine: Part 3: The Kinetic Stage Machines of Josef Svoboda 6. The Century of Light: Part 1: Diffused and Living Light 7. The Century of Light: Part 2: Light Beams and Images 8. The Scene as the Architecture of Performance 9. Some Rejections of Technology in Theatre and Performance 10. New Technologies and Shifting Paradigms 11. Scenography as Dramaturgy and Technology of Performance Notes Further Reading Bibliography Index.
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