Beyond Scenography

<p>Focused on the contemporary Anglophone adoption from the 1960s onwards, <i>Beyond Scenography</i> explores the porous state of contemporary theatre-making to argue a critical distinction between scenography (as a crafting of place orientation) and scenographics (that which orientate acts of worlding, of staging). </p><p>With sections on installation art and gardening as well as marketing and placemaking, this book is an argument for what scenography does: how assemblages of scenographic traits orientate, situate, and shape staged events. Established stage orthodoxies are revisited - including the symbiosis of stage and scene and the aesthetic ideology of 'the scenic' - to propose how scenographics are formative to all staged events. Consequently, one of the conclusions of this book is that there is no theatre practice without scenography, no stages without scenographics. </p><p><i>Beyond Scenography</i> offers a manifesto for a renewed theory of scenographic practice for the student and professional theatrical designer.</p> <p>Acknowledgments</p><p>Introduction</p><p>Scenography as theatre-making</p><p>Theatre after cinema</p><p>Scenography after performance</p><p>Chapter outline</p><p>Chapter 1: Place Orientation, Scenic Politics and Scenographics</p><p>Scenes and Scenic Politics</p><p>Scenographics</p><p>Othering Tactics</p><p>Chapter 2: Scenography and the Anglophone theatres</p><p>The first adoption of scenography</p><p>Continental differences pre-1960</p><p>The second adoption of scenography</p><p>Sound and costume as scenography</p><p>Chapter 3: Scenography beyond scenographers</p><p>Mise en scène and scenography</p><p>Whose scenography? </p><p>Beyond dramaturgy and choreography</p><p>Expanded scene design? </p><p>Chapter 4: Scenography Happens</p><p>The time of scenography</p><p>Scenography is not set</p><p>Gecko’s <i>MISSING </i>set</p><p>Chapter 5: Scenographic Worlding</p><p>Stage Geographies</p><p>Stage Ideologies</p><p>Scenography beyond stages?</p><p>Stage-Scenes beyond vision</p><p>Chapter 6: Scenographic Cultures</p><p>Installation Art and Scenographic Scale</p><p>Interior Design and Scenographic Behaviours</p><p>Marketing and Scenographic Seduction</p><p>Gardening and Scenographic Curation</p><p>Protest and Scenographic Activism</p><p>Chapter 7: Scenographic Architecture</p><p>Fast Architecture</p><p>Trompe l'oeil and Scenographic Propaganda</p><p>Potemkin Villages and Scenographic Placemaking</p><p>Conclusion</p>