Theatre and Performance Design

‘Theatre and Performance Design: A reader in scenography’(Routledge) is the title of a new publication by Jane Collins and Andrew Nisbet. Jane is a member of the Research staff at Wimbledon College of Art.

The book draws upon theatre and performance studies, cultural theory, fine art, philosophy and the social sciences to “to examine the principle forces that inform understanding of theatre and performance design.”

Packed full of key writings from lumunaries such as Josef Svoboda, Richard Foreman, Roland Barthes, Oscar Schlemmer, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Richard Schechner, Jonathan Crary, Elizabeth Wilson, Henri Lefebvre, Adolph Appia and Herbert Blau the book “provides a much needed critical and contextual framework for the analysis of theatre and performance design.”