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>