Edward Gordon Craig: A Vision of Theatre
Edward Gordon Craig: A Vision of Theatre

Author: Christopher Innes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1134402945

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Edward Gordon Craig's ideas regarding set and lighting have had an enormous impact on the development of the theatre we know today. In this new and updated edition of his well-known study of Edward Gordon Craig, Professor Christopher Innes shows how Craig's stage work and theoretical writings were crucial to the development of modern theatre. This book contains extensive documentation and re-evaluates his significance as an artist, actor, director and writer. Craig is placed in historical context, and his productions are reconstituted from unpublished prompt-books, sketches, journals and correspondence. Most of the designs and photographs, and many of Craig's writings cited, are not available elsewhere in print. Readers will gain insight into a key period of theatrical history, the life of one of its most fascinating individuals, the nature of stage performance, and into revolutionary ideas that are still challenging today.

Theaters
Theaters

Author: Andrew Craig Morrison

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780393731088

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The latest title in the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks series, Theaters offers a richly illustrated history of a revered cultural artifact and a technological challenge, following its progression from the eighteenth-century opera house to the modern movie multiplex.

The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig
The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig

Author: Olga Taxidou

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1134424507

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No study of modern theater is complete without a thorough understanding of the enormous influence of visionary genius Edward Gordon Craig. Born in England in 1872, Craig went on to become famous world-wide as an actor, manager, director, playwright, designer, and most importantly an author and theorist, whose books were translated into German, Russian, Japanese, Dutch, Hungarian, and Danish. Although an essential parallel to the European avant-garde, Craig was often read as "exceptional" and highly innovative in his native Britain, thus, The Mask not only appears as Craig's main cosmopolitan project but also at times functions as a surrogate stage for his experiments in theater practice. The book has a comprehensive chronology, extensive notes and a bibliography making it an essential text for undergraduates, postgraduates, actors, theatre professionals, designers, directors, researchers and writers in the fields of theatre studies (especially theater set and lighting) and theater history.

Beyond Scenography
Beyond Scenography

Author: Rachel Hann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 0429950985

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Focused on the contemporary Anglophone adoption from the 1960s onwards, Beyond Scenography explores the porous state of contemporary theatre-making to argue a critical distinction between scenography (as a crafting of place orientation) and scenographics (that which orientate acts of worlding, of staging). With sections on installation art and gardening as well as marketing and placemaking, this book is an argument for what scenography does: how assemblages of scenographic traits orientate, situate, and shape staged events. Established stage orthodoxies are revisited - including the symbiosis of stage and scene and the aesthetic ideology of 'the scenic' - to propose how scenographics are formative to all staged events. Consequently, one of the conclusions of this book is that there is no theatre practice without scenography, no stages without scenographics. Beyond Scenography offers a manifesto for a renewed theory of scenographic practice for the student and professional theatrical designer.

Woodcuts and Some Words
Woodcuts and Some Words

Author: Edward Gordon Craig

Publisher:

Published: 1925

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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Collection of the author's woodcuts made between 1898 and 1923 along with information about himself and tips for woodcutters.

Craig on Theatre
Craig on Theatre

Author: Edward Gordon Craig

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 9781350053465

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'Craig on Theatre' presents the essence of Edward Gordon Craig's ideas. This volume is a companion to 'Artaud on Theatre', 'Brecht on Theatre' and 'Meyerhold on Theatre'.