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Audience
Seating
Audience
Seating
Backstage
Stage
Space
(4th Wall)
Stage
Stage
Audience Space
Proscenium:
Spectators watch action
through a picture frame
Audience
Seating
Audience
Seating
Arena:
Stage surrounded by
audience
Audience
Seating
Audience
Seating
Thrust:
Stage projects into
audience space audience
on 3 sides
Columned
Arches:
proskenium
Audience space:
Theatron
Stage house:
Skene
Playing space:
Orchestra
Greek Theatre
Theatrical Design and Production
Remember!!!
Much of what we know about the Greeks is
an educated guess!!!
Greek Theatre
Theatrical Design and Production
Scene house:
Scaenae fons
Audience
Space:
Cavea
Roman Theatre
Theatrical Design and Production
Mansion
Heaven
Platea
Hell
Medieval Theatre
Theatrical Design and Production
Blame
Vitruvius
hes the one
who wrote
about the
classics!
1500-1650 Theatre
Theatrical Design and Production
1500-1650 Theatre
Theatrical Design and Production
Inner above
Inner below
Gallery
Pit
Stage
Theatrical Design and Production
1500-1650 Theatre
Theatrical Design and Production
Standardization of stage
designs / architecture
Apron performance space
Painted perspective drops,
wings, & borders
Interior sets
Multi-tiered boxes: Nobility
Galleries: Wealthy
Pit: Everyone else
1650-1900 Theatre
Theatrical Design and Production
1650-1900 Theatre
Theatrical Design and Production
Lighting
in the
Restoration
1650-1900 Theatre
Theatrical Design and Production
Technological innovations
Refinements to the incandescent light
Development of various lighting fixtures / instruments
Introduction of dimmers in the late 1940s
Digital controls introduced in the 1980s
Recorded sound introduced in the 1930s / 1940s
Computers and technology invade the theatres in early 1980s
20th century Theatre
Theatrical Design and Production