ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Scenography is the largest and most comprehensive collection of original essays to survey the historical, conceptual, critical and theoretical aspects of this increasingly important aspect of theatre and performance studies.
Editor and leading scholar Arnold Aronson brings together a uniquely valuable anthology of texts especially commissioned from across the discipline of theatre and performance studies.
Establishing a stable terminology for a deeply contested term for the first time, this volume looks at scenography as the totality of all the visual, spatial and sensory aspects of performance. Tracing a line from Aristotle’s Poetics down to Brecht and Artaud and into contemporary immersive theatre and digital media, The Routledge Companion to Scenography is a vital addition to every theatre library.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|61 pages
Scenographic elements
part II|103 pages
Scenographic theory and criticism
chapter 9|16 pages
Absolute, abstract, and abject
chapter 10|16 pages
“What is happening”
chapter 11|10 pages
Scenography Beyond Theatre
chapter 12|21 pages
Participation, Interaction, Atmosphere, Projection
part III|401 pages
History and practice
part |2 pages
Architecture as design
part |2 pages
Spatial and environmental design
chapter 20|11 pages
Storyteller as Time-traveler in Mohammed ben Abdallah’s Song of the Pharaoh
part |3 pages
Pictorial and illusionistic design
part |2 pages
Symbolic and emblematic design
chapter 31|9 pages
Expressionism and the Epic Theater in early twentieth-century German stage design
part |1 pages
Modern and contemporary design