Contemporary Mise en Scène: Staging Theatre Today

By Patrice Pavis

Book Overview

Contemporary Mise en Sc ne is Patrice Pavis's enlightening and penetrating analysis of the role that stagecraft plays in the creation of drama.

Pavis explores the complex relationship of mise en sc ne to different performance forms throughout history. He focuses on the traditional elements employed in stagecraft and studies the dramatic impact of actors, costume, lighting and set design on performance.

This powerful new translation explores the changing possibilities for stagecraft through new media forms in the twenty-first century and critically examines contemporary stagecraft today in the context of performance art, physical theatre and postmodern theory.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415553431
• ISBN13: 9780415553438
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"