ABSTRACT
The basis for the potential renovation of theatrical art above all the recognition that the theatre could be an art was already at hand when Appia set to work. A similar tribute was paid by Lee Simonson to Appias discovery and description of the principles of stage lighting: At one moment or another the staging of any modern production. Appias vision of the development of theatrical art proceeded linearly and without distraction along a track which practising men and women of the theatre. The earliest example of Appias influence at work the setting for Act Two of Tristan which Alfred Roller designed in 1903 for the Vienna Hofoper under Gustav Mahler. Finally, at his best, Reinhardt made some of the first and most persuasive attempts to realise Appias ideal of coherent, meticulously planned and carefully coordinated productions, through whose skilful synthesis of all the constituent expressive elements conceptually unified works of theatrical art could be created.
