{"title":"Svoboda and lighting design: fragments of a light discourse","authors":"C. Richier","doi":"10.1080/23322551.2020.1848200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2020.1848200","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Josef Svoboda is often presented as a master in the field of lighting design, but we know little about the exact nature of his contribution in this area. This article aims to foreground his input in terms of lighting sources, the light curtain, contrast, shadows, directions of light and mastery of stray light. It contains several excerpts and drawings from an unpublished interview on lighting design conducted in 1993.","PeriodicalId":37207,"journal":{"name":"Theatre and Performance Design","volume":"5 1","pages":"221 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87720129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Report from… The ‘Auditorium’ of my Living Room","authors":"S. Field","doi":"10.1080/23322551.2020.1845049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2020.1845049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37207,"journal":{"name":"Theatre and Performance Design","volume":"15 1","pages":"300 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84986013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Re)performing scenography: Josef Svoboda as a tutor","authors":"Sofia Pantouvaki","doi":"10.1080/23322551.2020.1856303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2020.1856303","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The document presented here was part of the curriculum offered in 1997 by the Department of Stage Design of the Theatre Faculty (DAMU) in Prague to the international exchange students from the Master of Arts in European Scenography at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London, UK) and the University of the Arts in Utrecht (Netherlands). It is based on two lecture-presentations by Josef Svoboda delivered at DAMU on 15 January and 22 January 1997, offering a rare opportunity for early-career designers to discuss scenography in detail and in context with him. The lectures provided a flowing narrative as a presentation and a sharing of Svoboda's design experiences; they included scenographic work presented by the designer himself with detailed descriptions and their technical solutions. This document is an edited selection of excerpts from the lectures accompanied by editorial commentary. The content of the discussion provides not only a vivid document of Svoboda's personal trajectory, but also a historical record of twentieth-century stage technologies and collaboration on an international scale. Given that Josef Svoboda's pedagogical involvement is rarely discussed, this document aims to contribute to Svoboda's legacy by bringing to light this lesser-known side of the great designer.","PeriodicalId":37207,"journal":{"name":"Theatre and Performance Design","volume":"1 1","pages":"199 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80768158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Josef Svoboda and the World Theatre Season","authors":"Helen Gush","doi":"10.1080/23322551.2020.1847391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2020.1847391","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article considers the work of Josef Svoboda in relation to the World Theatre Season (WTS), an annual season of international theatre companies presented at the Aldwych Theatre in London between 1964 and 1975. The WTS provided an initial platform for Svoboda's work in London, when WTS Director Peter Daubeny invited the Czech National Theatre to open the 1966 season with their production of The Insect Play (Ze života hmyzu), by Karel and Josef Čapek. The article provides a detailed historical analysis of The Insect Play, beginning with a production analysis and then tracing the production's material impact on scenography in the UK. First, the article argues that Svoboda's use of form and materials, as well as the spirit with which he approached his work, influenced the work of leading designer, Ralph Koltai. Second, the article demonstrates how The Insect Play functioned as a springboard for Svoboda's subsequent work on UK stages. Third, the article demonstrates how Svoboda's work gave weight to design, helping to foster the UK's design community. Ultimately, the article demonstrates that The Insect Play played a pivotal role in shaping Svoboda's career trajectory on UK stages and had a significant influence on British performance design.","PeriodicalId":37207,"journal":{"name":"Theatre and Performance Design","volume":"1 1","pages":"263 - 276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83659698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scenographic engineer Josef Svoboda and Laterna Magika as a creative laboratory under state socialism","authors":"Lucie Česálková, Kateřina Svatoňová","doi":"10.1080/23322551.2020.1848211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2020.1848211","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Josef Svoboda’s career was strongly linked to the exploration of new media and technological innovation. Svoboda realized his creative visions not only in domestic and foreign dramas and operas and artistic exhibitions, but also in the framework of a project on which he collaborated since the end of the 1950s – the multimedia theatre Laterna Magika. In this text, we analyze the stage design of Josef Svoboda for Laterna Magika from several perspectives. At the most general level, we are interested in his strategy of building Laterna Magika as an open creative environment and laboratory inside a restrictive socialist culture. Scenographically, we are interested in the role of film and television in his stage design and his experimentation and innovation in lighting design and stage kinetics, leading to virtuality and immersion as well as the reformulation of the concept of the screen on the stage. For Svoboda, Laterna Magika was an experimental space in which he planned to create a theatre with a fully variable stage that broke the line between actors and spectators and created a psycho-plastic space for the viewer.","PeriodicalId":37207,"journal":{"name":"Theatre and Performance Design","volume":"6 1","pages":"243 - 262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85140715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sally Jacobs, Artist and Theatre Maker, 1932–2020","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/23322551.2020.1853404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2020.1853404","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37207,"journal":{"name":"Theatre and Performance Design","volume":"30 1","pages":"309 - 310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78194842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Report from…HomeTheatre history alive – the streaming program of the Schaubühne in Berlin","authors":"Karin Winkelsesser","doi":"10.1080/23322551.2020.1836927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2020.1836927","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37207,"journal":{"name":"Theatre and Performance Design","volume":"47 1","pages":"298 - 299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79173521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical approaches to TV and film set design","authors":"K. Graham","doi":"10.1080/23322551.2020.1848201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2020.1848201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37207,"journal":{"name":"Theatre and Performance Design","volume":"111 1","pages":"311 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80679564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Boris Aronson and Pacific Overtures","authors":"D. Rockwell","doi":"10.1080/23322551.2020.1846878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2020.1846878","url":null,"abstract":"This article is edited from an interview conducted in May 2020.","PeriodicalId":37207,"journal":{"name":"Theatre and Performance Design","volume":"26 1","pages":"304 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80612819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaboration despite the tyranny of distance","authors":"J. Briscoe","doi":"10.1080/23322551.2020.1771942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2020.1771942","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In his influential book, historian Geoffrey Blainey coined the term The Tyranny of Distance (1982) as a descriptor that continues to influence the psyche. For the first time in 2019, the three leading performing arts schools in Australia approached the design for the student exhibition at the Prague Quadrennial (PQ) as a collaborative project. The theme of isolation and its influence on current Australian politics shaped not only the conception and development, but also the curation and realisation of the exhibition. The student exhibition presented the opportunity to explore the creation of a site-specific installation but required the navigation of distance in conception and realisation as installation of the various elements could only occur once on site in Prague. Distance also needed to be negotiated between cohorts, timelines and requirements of the different institutions. The tyranny of delayed international shipping was overcome, as with all other obstacles, by the application of a distinctly Australian sense of humour in the formation of a temporary installation – ShippingWrecked – to hold our place until the full exhibition arrived. PQ presents the opportunity to overcome our physical isolation but also test the benefits that isolation extends to our artistic practice.","PeriodicalId":37207,"journal":{"name":"Theatre and Performance Design","volume":"258 1","pages":"147 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82778846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}