Performing Arts · Theatre Practice
A topic within Theatre Practice, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Performing Arts.
2 works
Kenneth Macgowan & Robert Edmond Jones
Reports the new staging of Reinhardt, Jessner and their contemporaries across Germany to argue American theatre had fallen behind a European movement toward simplified, expressive scenery built around light rather than painted realism.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Edward Gordon Craig
Argues that the actor's involuntary humanity is a defect for theatre as art, and proposes a unified staging built from movement, light and symbolic design under a single directing vision instead of realistic imitation.
link checked 17 Sept 2026