ABSTRACT
The world view of scenography reveals that space is the first and most important challenge for a scenographer. Space is part of the scenographic vocabulary. Some play games with space, searching for its metaphor and meaning in the quest to define dramatic space. Space is described by its dynamics – the geometry, and its characteristics – the atmosphere. Geometry is a way of measuring space and describing it so that someone else can visualize it. Scenography and architecture are very closely linked, and many architects have brought their understanding of space to the theatre. The stage space revealed elaborate totally symmetrical scenic arrangements of borders and flats painted in detailed perspectives that were perfect from the centre of the Royal box, and less and less perfect from the seats on either side. The beginning of the twentieth century reveals a multiplicity of competing theatre ideals, then as searching for the elusive definition of the ideal theatre space.
