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    APPIA AND CRAIG IN CONTEMPORARY THEATRE DRM230 Presentation By Soha Ghanei. Presentation will seek to : Outline Appia and Craig's theories and innovations Evaluate the continuance of the application of these theories in two contemporary productions.

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    APPIA AND CRAIG IN CONTEMPORARY THEATRE

    DRM230 Presentation By Soha Ghanei

    ADOLPHE APPIA (1862-1928)


    Swiss theorist on stage decor and lighting Believed that each scene had four vital elements:
    1.

    2.
    3. 4.

    Verticle Scenery Horizontal Floor Moving, three dimensional actor Lighting

    Greatest aim was unification of four elements

    EDWARD GORDON CRAIG (1872-1966)


    English producer, actor, scene designer Believed that realism was limiting Theatre as art, not life

    Symbolism

    Aimed for noble artificiality

    This presentation will seek to :


    Outline Appia and Craigs theories and innovations Evaluate the continuance of the application of these theories in two contemporary productions.

    1.

    2.

    Robert Lepages The Anderson Project Robert Wilsons Hamlet Monologue

    THEORIES
    Adolpe Appia

    Edward Gordon Craig

    Replaced Painted backgrounds

    3D sets

    rhythmic Removed footlights

    Moved lights upwards into mobile light system

    Use of light and shade


    Light to diffuse Light to define emotion

    Also removed footlights Coloured lighting ber-marionette Patented moving screens Neutral, bare stage Symbolic interpretation

    Mobile set theory

    INNOVATIONS IN LIGHTING

    partly influenced in innovations in lighting

    1870s the incandescent light bulb

    Electrical lighting instead of gas burning lights Control of lighting through a centralized system

    THE ANDERSEN PROJECT

    HAMLET MONOLGUE

    Forest Scenes...

    we shall no longer try to give the illusion of a forest, but the illusion of a man trapped in the atmosphere of a forest

    IN CONCLUSION

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