Self-Supporting Scenery; For Children's Theatre...and Grown-Up's, Too

by James Hull Miller, Arthur L. Zapel (Editor)

Overview

Fifth edition - revised. Free-standing scenery creates its own theatre — compact, economical, and flexible. It marches right onto any stage platform, into the classroom, the recreation hall, and the garden theatre. This stagecraft book tells how to construct it. Includes over 175 drawings. Covers tools, materials, designs, and craft. An excellent theatre reference book. Written by a leading designer in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780916260910
Publisher:	Meriwether Publishing, Limited
Publication date:	01/28/1993
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.36(w) x 10.75(h) x 0.35(d)
Age Range:	5 - 17 Years

About the Author

James Hull Miller, a graduate of Princeton, combines an academic background in literature and philosophy with many years of actual theatre experience, twelve of which were spent in teaching. Since 1958 he has been a freelance designer and consultant. His field of special interest is the development of a new stagecraft for the theatre which takes the form offreestanding scenery. He has designed numerous open-stage theatres based on this system of stagecraft for colleges, communities, student unions, schools and churches. For many years he maintained a scenic studio, the Arts Lab, in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he gave workshops as well as constructed sets for use in a variety of spaces. Mr. Miller is a Charter Member of the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology and in 1978 was named a Fellow of the Institute. He is a Founding Member of the American Society of Theatre Consultants.