Scarecrow Press
Pages: 248
978-0-8108-4211-3 • Paperback • January 1995 • $70.00 • (£54.00)
978-1-4616-7392-7 • eBook • January 1995 • $66.50 • (£51.00)
William F. Condee is the director of the School of Comparative Arts and associate professor of theatre at Ohio University. His articles on theatre architecture have appeared in Journal of American Theatre and Drama, Architectural Review, World Architecture, Theatre Design and Technology, and Themes in Drama.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Examining the Theatre Space
Chapter 4 The Performance's Relationship to the Architecture
Chapter 5 Using the Architecture of the Theatre
Chapter 6 Involving the Audience
Chapter 7 The Proscenium Arch's Effect on Performance
Chapter 8 Comparing Performance on Open Proscenium Stages
Chapter 9 Designing for the Open Stage: Problems and Solutions
Chapter 10 Using the Portal on a Thrust Stage
Chapter 11 The Open Stage's Effect on Staging
Chapter 12 Director-Designer Collaboration on the Open Stage
Chapter 13 Stage Up or Stage Down? The Vertical Relationship of Audience and Performance
Chapter 14 Engaging the Stage Volume
Chapter 15 Flexible Theatres
Chapter 16 Environmental and Promenade Theatre
Chapter 17 Transferring a Production
Chapter 18 Two Planks and a Passion
Chapter 19 Index