Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-199) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: theatre venues and visualisation -- 1. The Rose Theatre, London, and stage movement in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus -- 2. Komediehuset, Bergen, and Henrik Ibsen's in his first theatre -- 3. A colonial audience watching Othello at the Queen's Theatre, Adelaide -- 4. Cantonese opera and the layering of space on the Australian goldfields -- 5. The design of attraction at the Stardust Showroom in Las Vegas -- Conclusion: Visualizing the future of theatre research.
Summary:
"Visualising Lost Theatres argues that once a theatre is demolished, its theatrical, social, and cultural worlds are also at risk. Yet venues are living systems, not than passive containers of performance. A visualisation-or virtual reconstruction-can provide the visual and immersive feel of a venue, revealing performance logistics for actors and audience. We examine virtual models of the Rose Theatre in 1590s London where Christopher Marlowe's plays were performed; Komediehuset in Bergen, Norway, where Henrik Ibsen learned how to be a playwright in the 1850s; the Queen's Theatre, built in 1841, which represents an empire-building movement in Adelaide, South Australia; Cantonese opera touring in circus tents in Australia's goldfields from the 1850s; and the Stardust showroom in 1950s Las Vegas which shaped commercial theatre for a tourist audience. Each reveals new knowledge about the venues themselves, theatrical form, and performer-audience relationships. The book overall offers a methodology for this new technology in theatre studies: it illustrates how the virtual models can, in conjunction with performers and designers, be performance laboratories to test out the written archive"-- Provided by publisher.
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