Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781350389625
Series Statement:
Readings in Theatre Practice
Content:
How has light influenced the staging of theatre throughout history? What does light contribute to performance? How does it make meaning? This collection explores the creative potential of light in the theatre. Through a wide range of extracts from historical accounts, new research and rare documents, some presented for the first time in English, Scott Palmer provides new ways of thinking about lighting as a creative performance practice. Focusing on elements such as: - The emergence of lighting design in the theatre - Equipment and techniques - The dramaturgy of light - Its impact on actor, audience and playhouse - The semiotics and phenomenology of light in performance The book reveals why light has such a profound effect on the audience's experience of a theatrical event
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230551893
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230551909
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350389632
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350398351
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-137-29249-0
