Scenery: Design and Fabrication

This book is a comprehensive guide to the design and basic construction of stage scenery. This practical, profusely illustrated textbook thoroughly explains the process of developing a scenic design concept and provides technical information on scenery construction, painting and rigging.

The book's four sections: 'An Introduction to Designing Scenery', 'Designing the One-Set Show', 'Designing the Multisetting Show', and 'Special Design Problems and Techniques', take the reader from an introduction to the basic purposes of theatrical scenery and a step-by-step guide to designing a simple interior setting to the advanced design processes required for multisetting shows such as musicals, productions set in arenas and thrust theatres, and advanced technologies such as scenic projection. Chapters are devoted to the design of interior and exterior settings, as well as the design of dramatic and musical multisetting shows. Each chapter discusses script guidelines, research and planning appropriate to that particular type of setting, and provides information concerning relevant scenery construction, painting and rigging techniques. Appendices supply information concerning stage terminology; standard theatrical drafting symbols; tools, hardware and materials; a listing of theatrical suppliers, and a bibliography.

Written in an engaging and casual style, Scenery: Design and Fabrication provides a proper and practical approach to scenic design for the beginning scenery designer, as well as much information which will be useful and appropriate for the more seasoned theatre designer.