Beyond Scenography Av Rachel Hann

<P>Focused on the contemporary Anglophone adoption from the 1960s onwards, <I>Beyond Scenography</I> explores the porous state of contemporary theatre-making to argue a critical distinction between scenography (as a crafting of place orientation) and scenographics (that which orientate acts of worlding, of staging). </P><P>With sections on installation art and gardening as well as marketing and placemaking, this book is an argument for what scenography does: how assemblages of scenographic traits orientate, situate, and shape staged events. Established stage orthodoxies are revisited - including the symbiosis of stage and scene and the aesthetic ideology of ''the scenic'' - to propose how scenographics are formative to all staged events. Consequently, one of the conclusions of this book is that there is no theatre practice without scenography, no stages without scenographics. </P><P><I>Beyond Scenography</I> offers a manifesto for a renewed theory of scenographic practice for