The theater needs people who are good with their hands. Creative and handy people make, paint, and maintain the sets and props that bring a show to life. Learn what is required to get a set ready for opening night, and how job skills developed on the stage can translate into a career that is always in high demand.
This new edition includes updated information and techniques throughout, including: Over a hundred new images and diagrams Updated terminology, products, and brands used internationally Expanded sections on 3D printing, vacuum forming, foam ...
New features to the second edition include: Updated information on the latest tools and materials used in prop making Both metric and standard measuring units Step-by-step photos on common techniques such as upholstery, mold making, and ...
Prop makers everywhere now have available to them a broader range of products and processes than every before. Making Stage Props is a book for anyone involved in prop making...
This book uses a combination of projects to expose readers to a wide range of materials and tools that they might find in a basic scenery or costume shop, serving both as a guide to building simple props and as a crash course in the variety ...
The volume includes both the terms in use in current discussions, some of which are still relatively new, as well as classics of design discourse. A practical book, both scholarly and ideal for browsing and reading at leisure.
(Gunther Renner't's production at Glyndebourne, lighting by Francis Reid.) People influence the world around them. Their environment is a mixture of circumstance and their adaptation of it and to it. Therefore much of a stage setting ...
The book is complemented by a companion website featuring videos of how to create individual prop special effects: www.propeffectsguidebook.com.
The playwright John Logan says in the opening notes of his play Red that “the entire setting should be abstract.” But, more often playwrights give us less to go on. So, we begin by determining the design objectives of time and period, ...
"Intended as a resource for both secondary and post-secondary theatre courses, this text provides a comprehensive overview of technical theatre, including terminology and general practice"--Publisher's website.
This diverse book brings together theoretical and practical viewpoints on objects in performance, how they can be part of theatre scenery, equal partners in performance, or autonomous things.