Art of Light on Stage

<p>The Art of Light on Stage is the first history of theatre lighting design to bring the story right up to date. In this extraordinary volume award-winning designer Yaron Abulafia explores the poetics of light charting the evolution of lighting design against the background of contemporary performance. The book looks at the material and the conceptual; the technological and the transcendental. Never before has theatre design been so vividly and excitingly illuminated. </p><p>The book examines the evolution of lighting design in contemporary theatre through an exploration of two fundamental issues: </p><p>1. What gave rise to the new directions in lighting design in contemporary theatre?</p><p>2. How can these new directions be viewed within the context of lighting design history?</p><p>The study then focuses on the phenomenological and semiotic aspects of the medium for light - the role of light as a performer as the medium of visual perception and as a stimulus for imaginative representations - in selected contemporary theatre productions by Robert Wilson Romeo Castellucci Heiner Goebbels Jossi Wieler and David Zinder. </p><p>This ground-breaking book will be required reading for anyone concerned with the future of performance.</p>