Performing Arts · Theatre Practice
Set Design
A topic within Theatre Practice, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Performing Arts.
Reading for Theatre Practice
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No prior grounding assumed.
- BookThe Empty SpacePeter Brook, 1968
Theatre requires only an empty space, someone crossing it and someone watching; everything beyond that is convention, and most of it is deadly.
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Assumes you know the vocabulary.
- BookAn Actor PreparesKonstantin Stanislavski, 1936
Builds performance from given circumstances and objectives rather than from imitating emotion — the source of nearly every acting method since.