· What should stage look like?
· Surreal nature: real actors vs. unreal stage
· What is the significance of the stage’s location in the show? Location vs. scene
· Where do props come in and why?
· Scene metaphor for machine – scenography
· Early twentieth century idea
· Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966):
1. Published several works – book Scene (1923) and volume of essays On the Art of Theatre (1911)
2. Public controversy – puppets instead of people
3. Rejected traditional ideas and adopted mechanical reality
4. Patented work (1910)
5. Screens “moved” with actors – modern approach
6. Screens = space
7. Hamlet for Moscow Art Theatre
8. Stanislavski disagreed but, in turn, praised – claimed primitive design and “rough around the edges” techniques, although derived clear aesthetic feel
9. Technology limits – audience fills gap
· Adolphe Appia:
1. Reformed Wagner – scenographic
2. “Machine” controls action – scene = tool used to accomplish
3. “Rougher around the edges” than Craig because lighting not available – drawings provided
4. Stage not image, symbol of ideas and qualities
5. Worked with Emile Jacques Dalcroze, who hadn’t worked theatrically but stressed effect of performance (scenography)
6. Physical movements corresponded to music - generated consciousness and societal impact (Eurhythmics)
7. Began experimental theater – projects specified by space
8. Revelation for audience because beyond the norm and required interaction – brightly lit
9. Craig and Appia became architects of power of lighting
· Scenography created tension between performance and stage (live)
28 May 2009
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