Iain Mackintosh

Theatre Spaces 1920-2020

Finding the Fun in Functionalism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this lavishly illustrated hands-on account of the creation of new theatre spaces spanning a century, Iain Mackintosh offers a compelling history that is part memoir, part impassioned call to rethink the design of our theatre spaces and the future of live theatre. As the originator of theatre designs as diverse as the Cottesloe in 1977, Glyndebourne in 1994, the Orange Tree Theatre in 1991, the Martha Cohen Theatre in 1985 and the Tina Packer Playhouse in 2001, he discovered why the same show worked in some theatres but not in others. It is this unique blend of experience that informs this account of many of the best-known theatre spaces in Britain, besides many international examples including the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis and the Oslo Opera House. Running throughout is a consideration of factors which have shaped design thinking during this time and which demand attention today. After the long theatre closures driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, Mackintosh argues that now is the time to discover the routes travelled over the last century. Published in partnership with the Society of Theatre Research, the book features a foreword by Sir Richard Eyre, Director of the National Theatre, 1987-1997.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 186mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 720g
• ISBN-13: 9781350056244
• ISBN-10: 1350056243
• Artikelnr.: 66896822

Autorenporträt

Iain Mackintosh

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Foreword by Richard Eyre An Introduction and a
Summary Act 1 Pre-1920: Setting the Scene and Some Early Pioneers Chapter
One: Theatre is Ephemeral While Buildings Endure. Some Necessary Background
Chapter Two: Richard Wagner, Adolphe Appia and the Spreading of the Fan
Act II 1920 Chapter Three: The Festival Cambridge, Stratford-upon-Avon and
Early Days of the National Chapter Four: Guthrie's Thrust Stages Chapter
Five: Germany's Building Boom and Anglo-American Shakespeare Chapter Six:
The Olivier, the Lyttelton and the Barbican Theatres Act III 1976-2020: The
Past Informs the Present Chapter Seven: The Cottesloe and Other Courtyards
Chapter Eight: Worthy Scaffolds: Brook's Empty Space and Spaces Found by
Others Chapter Nine: Regenerating the Old Offers an Antidote to Modernism.
Part One: English Theatres of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Chapter Ten: Regenerating the old offers an antidote to modernism. Part
Two: A Couple of Twentieth-century Scottish Theatres Reborn - One in
Edinburgh and the Other in Florida Chapter Eleven: New Opera Houses from
Glyndebourne to Dallas. Elsewhere Some Starchitects Upstage the Performers
Chapter Twelve: Learning from the Netherlands, Berlin, Brazil, Australia,
Indian and Chinese Cultures. The Threat of Internationalism Chapter
Thirteen: 2010-2020: Some New Builds, Two Renovations - One at
Stratford-upon-Avon and One in London - And Diversions on In-the-round and
the Open Air Act IV 2021: The Future Chapter Fourteen: Unforeseen
Consequences of Seventeenth-century Plagues, of the Arrival of the Talkies
and the More Recent Dangers of the Pandemic and of 'Virtual Theatre'. Some
Central Themes Restated References Further Reading Acknowledgements Theatre
Index Person Index