“For the present, however, the scene-designer remains what he has always been: one member of a group of interpreters. As such he must, usually in four weeks’ time, construct a home or a palace… transport any corner of the five continents or any number of Arcadias to the theatre, provide any object that the actors must touch or handle, whether a throne or a kitchen chair, a dead sea-gull or the Sphinx, and out of paint, glue, canvas, gauze, wood, and papier mâché create a world real enough to house the conflicts of human beings.”1
Lee Simonson, The Stage is Set
During the past few weeks, focus has been upon the character and the world that character inhabits as reflected by the choices made by the costume designer. We now ...
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